| As an artist, I address issues of masculinity and normalcy as a white, straight, American male. Often taking the form of self-portraits, my constructed situations and performed characters seek to portray the contradictions in a social group that is so normal it is not defined as a group. The result is often humorous and ironic, but multi-layered, as I use my own far-from-perfect male body to show the unspoken pressures of strength, vigilance, and competitiveness that men face. |