Our demand (and capacity) for hyperextensions of our physical selves (from sports statistics to nose jobs) in search of identity is tragically ironic, yet ever increasing. In my work these extensions manifest themselves as both energy and waste producing prostheses as well as synthetic versions of my own actions and bodily by-products (urine and sweat). These analogs for the missing body (artist) represent the restriction markers used by all living things to define and identify themselves, their territory, and others. I hope to re-examine Western cultural notations of physicality (as they relate to ‘process’ and identity) and posit a modern social identity of the artist -- as ‘producer and consumer of energy and waste.’” M.J.

1966	born
1989	B.F.A. Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1991	M.F.A. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
	Adjunct instructor, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY; lives in New York, NY