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As a young art student in 1980, I climbed out of the ivory tower of Modernism, making my way down a long braid from the back of Suzi Gablik's neck. I believe in an art that engages in an uncertain dialogue with everyday life. I don't believe that my work is universal, but I believe in re-enchanting the part of the world where I am. To reconstruct William Carlos William's idea of "the local is universal," I believe the local is enchanted. Whether or not enchantment itself is universal is something I'm not interested in addressing.

At the base of that ivory tower I found hundreds of round, wet pools. I have my feet in two of these pools. One is narrative painting. The other is community-arts based installation.