My desire to create art stems from my relationship with art. Art is my ontology, a metaphysics that bridges logic and analysis to emotion and spirituality. In this respect I view myself as a theorist. I am searching for some sort of unified theory to describe the way everything is. My art becomes discussions or experiments on this search. I find great enjoyment in my work, and am comforted by the knowledge that I will never find a unified theory. As art critic Waldemar Januszczak said of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings, I feel like I am on an endless and “marvelously addictive game of Nontrivial Pursuit.” Luckily this is a game without rules, where you can win as many pie pieces as you set your mind to.