Awareness, Advocacy, Activism: ART Always awakening awareness and artistically articulating advocacy and activism through acts of artistic expression. Mine is family living with various aspects of special needs which directly influences my every act of self-expression. I identify strongly with the life and arts of the sideshow and my work reflects this as well. I have always been the proverbial “Red headed stepchild in the family full of freaks” even within my theater family dynamic that nurtured me from an early age. There, I discovered that death truly is my art.