"About 5 years back I had a ‘psychotic episode’ that lasted a few months (I know, shocker, an artist with mental health problems!) I pretty much lost my mind in the conventional sense, was punching myself in the head a lot, and ended up in hospital way too many times. It was all as horrifying as it sounds.

Through the long process of methodically putting my life back together I became conscious of the authority I had over my own happiness, and of my agency to structure my life around what gives me joy. I no longer associate happiness with luck, but instead view it as an output of the mechanism of my consciousness. Not to reduce it down to a truism, but essentially - good stuff in, good feelings, good stuff out.

This show is a pure extension of that process. Some of these works are about things that bring pure joy to me - animals and people, and some of them are about ideas that manifest purpose and awareness - the winding path it takes to make art, or the conscious choice to look for magic in reality. I wanted to fill the space with all of it, like a grinning hallucinogenic postcard from my psyche.

Collectively, because of the pandemic and shifting cultural contexts, we’ve all been asking ourselves about how much agency we are willing to sacrifice, and the subsequent impact of it on our own happiness. The idea for the sound installation comes from thinking about this, but also from wanting to subvert the conventions of the space. I think art is at its most effective when it makes us laugh at ourselves.

Enjoy the show, and the feeling of the space it occupies. Feed it through your own mechanisms. Make something good from it."