I like weird. Weird is the only thing that makes sense to me, maybe because weird dares to challenge reality. Reality is often just our fears realized, so why not embrace the uncanny, make things strange, in order to imagine something different? I was raised on Theatre of the Absurd, and by that I guess I mean Jim Henson. I value the bones and math of his work in its compassion over cynicism. I like the idea of showing up for other people's pain, not necessarily trying to fix it. As a kid, I used to dream about volcanos a lot; volcanoes that swallowed people's sadness and barfed out magma flowers. I guess I've always been interested in transmutation of pain through abstraction so it can return to usefulness, if not beauty.