In 2004, as a means of subverting my tiny status as a singer and songwriter, I began a series of performance works loosely organized under the title "Obscurity is the New Fame". The idea was to explore the conditions of a public concert, to see how an audience would react the more constricted the performance area became (i.e. a public bathroom, stairwell, bus shelter, etc). Encouraged by these experiments, I have now devoted a majority of my current time and attention to the design and construction of performance sculptures, stages and furniture which offer specific barriers and opportunities for the performer and audience. There is a degree of futility and humour in these structures, however the intent is always to create performance circumstances which are transcendent.