False Idols Journal

Can you feel me?

I discovered fame at a very early age. Not that I had it, although in some ways I did. I saw it on television at home at my house on North Venice Boulevard in Venice Beach, California.

Navigating the Unknown

In order to create something new, we have to let go…

I have a great deal of respect for existing bodies of knowledge and their lineages. I think that is necessary. I have always operated on the premise that in order to truly know something, you must go totally into it. Experience it fully. And the only way to do this safely, is to have the capacity to remain yourself at the same time.

When Liberation Becomes Necessity

Transforming the most vulnerable aspects of ourselves into empowerment is perhaps the most challenging and treacherous journey one can make, but truly, what else is there?

City of Faith and the Ninth Fold

I don’t want to tell the truth about myself, I make art so I don’t have to.

You want to know my race, my country, my religion. You want the biography of the artist for context and categorization. You want to know my financial status, what school I didn’t go to, what trauma I have suffered. You want to know these separations, distinctions, but I make art to show I am human.