I understood:

• Stickers altered the value and meaning of things.
• They were coded with colors and symbols that translated into actions.
• They seemed to be everywhere.

I got my first skateboard at age 10 and stickers became a way to communicate without having to speak. You knew the bands I liked (or wanted to be known to like), phrases I used, brands I consumed, all by checking out my deck. Wearing my jeans jacket covered in sew-on patches, I was a walking and riding billboard. You'd find the soundtrack amongst the stack of albums that were seemingly permanently attached to my arm.

Around the same time I made my first sticker collages on my notebooks, binders and the front of the kick drum on my drum kit, using what I could get out of gum-wrappers, hardware stores and the local record shops.

I started to draw around the time I started talking, and my life has been filled with visual art and music ever since. I’ve been playing the drums since age 6. I immediately think about music or bands or songs that I can listen to while creating and I make playlists when I’m working on a series of images.

The works included in 'Stuck In My Head' came from a notebook that I've filled with song lyrics that drill themselves into my thoughts, sometimes for decades. These works combine laser-cut album covers, commercially-made stickers and custom sticker designs which I made specifically for these images. The combination of textures, colors and visual images are how I 'see' what I am 'hearing', rendered on surfaces that approximate the proportions of an album cover or the gate-fold images you would find inside a double-album.