"…the capacity of metafictional questioning to help the development of heightened consciousness…has been affirmed by the majority of critics as one of its most valuable qualities." —Karl S. Y. Kao

After a lifetime of hearing fictional characters, and after exhausting every possible spiritual, medical and medicinal context for my experience, my eyes opened to a deeper truth about the metaphysical reality of the things we imagine. It is a truth that can’t be contained in exposition but is expressed across my body of work. I consider myself a medium for fictional characters who cannot actuate their own story, and who are desperate to reach the hearts of a willing audience.

I tell the stories of those who wake up to their fictional nature—sometimes suddenly, sometimes gradually, and always through the proxy of unbearably traumatic events. Tragic though my stories may be, they also illustrate the power of relational healing, empathy, and the ways in which devastation can connect both people and animals.

When I had the opportunity to attend film school, I realized that it felt unnatural to have my characters avoid looking at the camera when they clearly knew I was there. My work is full of self-referential phrases and eye contact with the audience. In this, I drew inspiration from a number of children's shows, tv documentaries and metafictional series like "The Office." I have adapted their methods to long-form melodramas—novels and screenplays—but without the post-modern trimmings that have plagued so much metafictional work over the years. 

In my work, characters want to connect not just with each other, but with you. They might interact with the camera with the camera or a narrator. You will sometimes meet a “host” character who identifies as real, but who can interact with the fictional characters. In this way, I study the complex and tender connection between human beings and the things that we imagine.

Just when our collective myths begin to take on a pattern, they ultimately shift again, changed by our very perception of what they are and our assertion that we might understand them.

Stories can frustrate, seduce, motivate or demoralize. Perhaps most mysterious of all, the same story heard twice can do two different things, and therein teach us what it has changed within ourselves.