I am an Onion with Many Layers to Peel

This piece is one of a sixteen collages on wood that were developed for a show at Morono Kiang Gallery in Los Angeles titled, Edifice Cache. The concept of Edifice Cache was based on the idea of Exquisite Corpse whereby a work of art is created through the collaboration of a group of artists who sequentially add their work to components of, in this case, a single installation. Mike Russek, an L.A. based artist and designer, provided the foundation of the exhibit in the form of an evolving installation. Over the course of four weeks, myself along with other artists, Augustine Kofie, John Carr, and Yuri Shimojo, proceeded to create our own works which were integrated into Russek's original creation.

Creating sixteen works under one week’s time was one of the most intense artistic production moments in my life. I was working day and night, and it was a...