In my emerging years as an artist I participated in group shows, and engaged with installing my work guerrilla style in open and public spaces. It was very important to me to make a concerted effort to "unframe" art in that my perception was, that the market itself, had created a paradigm which separated art, and its makers from a central/tribal/community expression. It was as if the critic became the priest/priestess deigning what was good/bad and the curator the all powerful figure who decided whether an expression was worthy of entering the sacred sanctuary of the museum. It appeared to be about hype, about "the inflated words" or "ego" or sense of "self-importance" which was counter to me at that time of my sense of who the artist is in our culture, and the role they play in the world.

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After consulting with an expert, when I felt it was time to let the work breath in public spaces, his advice to me was to exhibit the work in tandem with performance expressions.

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Hence solo exhibitions in Vienna, Brooklyn, and Santa Barbara