There is a creepiness about Craig’s List, but also a feeling of comforting neighborliness. These on-line sellers desperately “want” and “need”, allowing us to measure our own sense of complicity, compassion, distrust and resiliency. Filmmaker Miranda July wrote, “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life.” These types of unfiltered stories transform the individualism of desperation into a relatable mythology. As a Social Realist, political and economic themes allow me to present personal protests edged with satire. New Deal graphics and writers like William Faulkner, Raymond Carver and T.S. Eliot are all major influences for their inclined brevity and storytelling intensity.

 Sometimes signs transpire from an amalgamation of socio-economic conditions specific to Cleveland,  casino openings, the foreclosure crisis, and in other cases, they are fabrications intended to resonate and reverberate with the authorial voice shifting, vibrating in opposition and sometimes collapsing altogether.