My work explores the relationship between the Military-Industrial Complex and skateboard ethics. With influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and Roy Lichtenstein, new combinations are generated from both mundane and transcendant textures. Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the moment. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes corroded into a dialectic of temptation, leaving only a sense of decadence and the inevitability of a new synthesis. As shimmering derivatives become distorted through studious and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a new agenda of the limits of our culture.