In 2002, I studied with Alfredo Jaar at the Internationale Sommerakademie for Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria. I made a boat that I intended to row out to a small island in the Salzach River and plant a black flag there – as a symbol that the island was outside any nation – a ‘temporary autonomous zone’.
After a year in Russia, I vowed to never live somewhere cold again. I moved to Savannah, Georgia, where my friend Elsie grew up.
In 1998 I moved with my parents to St. Petersburg, Russia. They were teaching there at the time, and I had heard that it was the ‘Venice of the North’.
In 1995 I moved to San Fransisco and started working on the biggest and most elaborate boat that I have ever made.
When I was 20 I moved to Rome with an art school program. I made a boat to navigate down the Tiber River. It was the first time that I had tried making a skin on frame boat, sealed with tar.
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