MEMORY
"I like America and America likes Me"
30" x 22"
water soluble pencil and crayon
2003
"That day was the closest to my real life it ever got. Instead of the entourage of fake mothers who I would embrace with gloved hands, they used my real mother, and a car salesman who was a friend of the family. They still felt the need to bring in a fake dad. Looking at the picture now I realize that the man has an uncanny resemblance to Joseph Beuys. Maybe Joseph Beuys was learning to like America through product modeling. We all liked America that day playing with the shiny new car. Maybe that is how I became an artist. Perhaps that day my fake dad whispered in my ear about the science of freedom."