I want to share stories through my art. These stories are about all of the relationships we have with people in our lives. To create these stories, we have to connect to others, and share parts of our selves with another person. In return, that person gives us a piece of his or her life. The stories in my art are created from the connections people forge with each other, and they manifest as interactions between people.

An essential part of my artwork is the relationship between artist, artwork, and participants. The objects I create are only a small part of the artwork; I need an active audience to help me create the essential aspect of the artwork through interaction with my objects. The dolls are the visual aspect of the art, but what are most important are the potential interactions with the public. Some of these interactions are public, in the gallery. Some of them only happen on the internet or in our imagination.

Using dolls and games as a medium, my artwork is benign, referencing children's toys. I want to create a comfortable space where we are relaxed and playing. The dolls are more complex than children's toys--they change gender, sexuality, race, and body type. Because they do these things, but still look like children's toys, these dolls equalize different bodies, different desires, and different stories. In referencing didactic children's toys, the dolls place their own stories in the realm of everyday and common. This is a space where we all can play out our lives, our loves, our stories. No one has a completely conventional life and this space is where we can play that out and accept our varied and nuanced selves.

The characters these dolls become depend on the person playing with them. I can't define the interaction between audience and art any more than I can define the people who come in to see the artwork. I just want to create something accessible, engaging and relatable to the public. It is the viewer defines the characters and their stories.

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke writes of a concept he calls "blood remembering"—he defines it as creating art out of the many experiences of our lives. Rilke explains that poetry is not simply feelings. An artist must go and live, have many life experiences to distill into a piece of art. It becomes more than memory—it turns to blood within us, until it is indistinguishable from our selves. It is difficult to evoke a feeling or experience that we as individuals haven't had. I have only a small collection of memories. Perhaps this is why I enlist the audience to help me in artmaking—to bring their stories in to expand the potential of the artwork. These dolls can express the many stories of our experiences.