My work draws from my childhood days of playing "War"; setting up battles with plastic Army men, running around the neighborhood simulating gun fights, flying around with arms outstretched like the wings of a bomber. No one questioned why we played this game, we just did it because it was fun. Their isn't any harm in the games we play is there?

By combining different mediums I create a physical environment that draws the viewer into the space and then forces them to confront their own perceptions of war. "WAR is FUN!" is my critique on the atrocities of war. One country forcing their views on another creates confusion, displacement of people, and catastrophic obliterations that I seek to address in my work. My installations are both challenging and rewarding to create. I derive imagery from the eight years I spent in service with the US Air Force. My critique deepened through my research in literature, movies, news stories and a heavy dose of imagination.

Initially I began this work by screenprinting cartoonish soldiers onto child-craft felt. Using a large wall, I created a war torn landscape, and assembled the characters with their machines of destruction - rocket launchers, machine guns, tanks, airplanes and helicopters. For each site-specific variation on "WAR is FUN!" I create a temporary 3-dimensional object out of recycled material that is dismantled after the exhibition. These sculptures have included tanks, airplanes, missiles, and helicopters.

To fully round out the installation I often make large-scale monochromatic wall paintings, and add elements of theatrical lighting, video projection and sound. The great thing about this work is that it is continually growing and evolving, responding to current events and on-going issues of military might, political and economic domination, and the roles of American government and society.

By referencing my life's experiences, drawing on events from the news, and extracting imagery from books on war, I continue to expand my work in a way that is personal and meaningful as an artist and as an ex-military.