Most of my recent work began as simple interactions with my family.  I preserve some aspect of these interactions as photos, video or audio snippets and display them in ways that expose the meaning and strangeness immanent in commonplace objects and activities.   As an artist I think of myself as a “tinkerer”.  I go into the studio and take ideas, language, electronics—everything apart to see how it works.  I attempt to put these bits and pieces back together, creating artworks that reveal rather than conceal this messy process of experimentation in the hope that viewers will enter into the spirit of playfulness and shared discovery. The Boggle Project carries these themes of playfulness and experimentation forward.  In many respects the Boggle Project is a serendipitous enterprise, a series of simple experiments designed to test my skill at postnogstication, the rather common but non-the-less uncanny ability to foretell the past.  As unremarkable as this skill might sound, it is in fact quite handy.  Generally we call this competence “interpretation” using this linguistic ability to postdict  the past, thereby forecasting the present.  Prior to the saying (pre-dict), the past is a series of physical exigencies set in motion by more or less random events.  We narrate and analyze these incidents and occurrences molding them,  (fore-cast), providing them with meaning and giving shape to the present.  The Boggle Project is a reminder that the present is a fragile porcelain image that language sculpts from the raw clay of past experiences.