Technology has become a huge role in the life of most people in the world. The computer and more specifically the Internet have revolutionized the way people educate themselves, the way people communicate and the way we organize our lives. To me this has solidified Hegel's doctrine of the End of Art. It is now impossible to create work untainted by the history of what we are today and as a result we can no longer create perfectly original artwork. You can in no way make something without seeing the connections to history, to the past of art movements and artists. The last original idea came from the Dadaists from the midst of World War I, who acted when technology, which in the Enlightenment scheme had been thought of as a tool of progress and peace, failed. This pushed the Dadaist to create resounding anti-art movement boldly declaring that anything can be art after the End of Art. And now today almost 100 years after Dada we see that they are right. Anything can be and is Art and it has all been done. Andre Serrano has turned his own feces into phenomenal photographs. You no longer need to have your own hand in the work you create as Jeff Koons shows with his many hired assistants. On the computer within five minutes you can be looking at any work of art you want. And what has all of this it resulted in? A regurgitation of culture. Not only in terms of art ether, it's everything: music, movies, poetry, fashion and even technology. We have progressed so far into one specific side of technology that we realized it was harming the world and now we have back up, re-invest. With globalization reaching its highest that it has ever been and with information so readily available, only now we begin to realize that we have been working with the same material for so long and we have no idea where to go from here.

So where does my art fit into all of this? I am by no means going to claim to be the next original idea; instead I am going to say out right that I am overly aware of the paradox in which we are all caught right now, which is the paradox of individuality, creativity and originality vs the reproduction and regurgitation of old ideas. The paradox of individuality is here intimately related to the paradox of choice: the more choice that is available, the narrower the real effective choice.

How I have addressed the paradox is by creating work that reflects how I am constructed through fragments, therefore something which precedes me. I feel that the only thing that the paradox leaves me to do is to explore the nature and conditions of my individuality. I daydream days away thinking of my past, revisiting old places. I find myself talking to people I haven't talked to in years. I am constantly trying to piece together my own personal history. Hoping it will lead me to more information about how I came to be. Maybe, then, I come to discover myself. This is an art-practice where Joseph Cornell and Ray Johnson meet the Situations International - in the post-Industrial and post-Metaphysical landscape of Detroit. A city, like me, composed of fragments and also can only be explained by searching its history. I find myself thinking of Detroit as kin. Its complex history and struggle for survival reflects my own life’s struggles and historical twists. The more I am here the more it feels like a collage of life: people trying to survive, trying to piece together their lives. This collage of life begat’s creativity in the most unique ways, and with it comes creativity from the people forced to utilize the collage. This is what keeps me here. This is what I work for.