He creates work that disrupts the spiritual, historical, and political framework of American Exceptionalism. His work derives from his upbringing as a child of a preacher in the American south, and from a suspicion of his own inheritance within the Western tradition. He generates a self-embodied practice of cultural translation, creating work that orients towards direct social action by being a public catalyst for comparative practices rooted in historical institutionalism, social disidentification, and spatial aesthetics, exposing American identity as actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice.