I am originally from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada where I grew up cheering loudly for the Edmonton Oilers. After a brief attempt to be a punk rock drummer, I attended the University of Lethbridge where I received my BFA in sculpture in 2001. After that, I got a crazy notion to travel to the Dakotas where I completed my MFA in sculpture in 2004 from the University of North Dakota. I am presently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Visual Art and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts based in Portland, ME. The title of my dissertation is - The Locus of Thought: Place as a Focus for a Thinking. My research interests lie in post-1960 interdisciplinary art practices, environmental aesthetics, social based practices, continental philosophy, ecocriticism, poststructuralism, and philosophies of place. Much of my days are filled with teaching and related activities as an Assistant Professor of Art at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. Some of the things that currently receive heavy rotation in my consciousness are spatial theories, shoveling snow, Heidegger, pangrams, alt country, blogs, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, teaching, being human and most of all, my wife, son and daughter.
