I worked for my father during my formative years cutting women's apparel patterns in the downtown Los Angeles garment district, and this experience became enmeshed in my identity as an artist. I have since reclaimed a form of pattern making by incorporating materials used in clothing manufacturing. I seem to have inherited a fixation on pattern shapes as a result of working in the textile trade, passed onto me quite literally from the biological genes of my father, and through the cyclic, repetitious functions of cutting shapes and marking style numbers. It is from this I came to observe the parallels of heredity and genetics, both organically inbred, and learned. I began experimenting with materials by dissecting fragments of my experience, analyzing these as particles of data, and reconstructing ideas into personal inventions and childlike specimens, much like playing mad scientist or Doctor Frankenstein. The result is pure imagination that hypothesizes to cancel out human monotony and the negatives of real life.