" The visual language of Legere is kissed by the light of the Dawnland and the alchemy of Abenaki iconography. 

ARTIST STATEMENT 

I am an interdisciplinary, two-spirit artist of Abenaki descent. I use Abenaki iconography and ancient indigenous stories to address contemporary issues.

My transmedia art operates in the space between ecology, engineering, painting, drawing, sculpture, alternative energy, dramatic text, projected visuals, dance, trans-genre music, performance art, new technologies and sculptural costuming; I announce new social formations, games & prophecies. I am a meta-gender and meta-genre artist. I create conversations that question performance, gender, and artistic norms.

My paintings spring from my Abenaki tribal heritage: We are dedicated to the art of family, faith, community, and love. We believe that when we disconnect from the Spiritual, we die. Our iconography is unique. We use patterns derived from the characteristic movements of fluids as expressed in the morphology of living things. These patterns, when deployed in traditional ways, have mystic, multi-dimensional and shamanic power. This is the visual language of the Great Mystery.

I use nontoxic, non-plastic paint, brushes, supports, and mediums especially cadmium free oil paint with lavender oil medium often mixed with egg to achieve fluid viscosity and transparency. I paint on linen and found materials. I have developed a non plastic non animal gesso formula that uses eco friendly glue, chalk and white pigment.  I use it thinly to allow a color field type bleed in some places - I reach for the Spiritual in Art. I go thick and thin, fast and slow, lean and fat, anal and anarchist. My parents were very strict painting teachers who taught me old masters techniques. I was raised to believe that art is as important as life and death.  My parents were brutally visual. My grandparents were musical. I have spent my whole life trying to interpenetrate art, music and performance. I often embed sensors and sound chips in my paintings. The physical presence of the viewer triggers a burst of my original music.

My art practice is a hymn of praise to the Creator and a life preserver for my sanity. Where would I be without my art? In a nuthouse or dead. I refuse to be pigeonholed into some reductivist marketing category. I am a madman who exists outside of time, space, genre and gender. I paint for myself and for the angels. 

I celebrate the Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere of Earth. I paint celestial Mothers giving birth to cosmic creativity

I transgress the distinction between abstraction and representation/ male and female/spectacle and solitude/child and adult/sound and vision/science and spirituality. 

I seek ways to astonish and awaken awareness using scientific data, sound and color.  I am a gender-fluid, two-spirit Native American with a profound love of women, children, and Nature. 

I use discarded refuse found floating in Waterways and discarded histories found floating in the air to create music, art and social change.  

I explore ways in which my Total Art Sythesis multidisciplinary art can have real and lasting social impact.  I invite audiences to change the world through active participation and engagement. 

I make "Anywhere -Anything" art. I stage street and community participatory spectacles to invoke and provoke community awareness of environmental, and social justice issues.  I work in oil, experimental media, ink, resin, egg tempera, video, sound, and upcycled, repurposed materials. I invent instruments. 

My community service is an integral part of my artistic practice.