about
I've always been interested in weird things. Unsual things. Things people don't usually talk about, and probably don't think too much about either (well, except for the sexual themes, I get the idea people do think about those types of things!). I love ideas that are unusual and deeply emotional. I remember being this way when I was a teenager, at that age when I was becoming my own person. I discovered the Dada art movement and read everything I could about it, I devoured it, I became an expert. Seems like a boring way for a teenage girl to spend her days and nights but I loved it. Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and so many more filled my senses with exciting stories and possibilities. Those people forged a path for modern art and their non-sensical performances, writing and behavior seemed a bit dangerous and thrilling.I started writing lyrics and stories and played around with the idea of recording music.
I created Master/Slave Relationship (MSR) in Autumn of 1984 as a one-person industrial noise music and photographic project to explore my own interests in elements of emotional domination and submission, sex, and my obsessions. For more than twenty years I have self-produced a unique brand of industrial music and art. In that time I've released more than ten cassettes, one vinyl LP, five CDs and one CD-ROM. MSR has never performed live and has no intention of ever doing so. MSR was conceived primarily to express and explore my interests in extreme behaviour and thought.
From 1982 to 1988 I created music as Viscera with Hal McGee and together we created Cause And Effect which was a cassette-only music mailorder outlet in the Midwest. During that time we sold over 10,000 cassettes via mailorder before the days of the internet (yeah you had to write for a catalog through the postal mail and wait a week or two to receive it then send a check in the mail to place your order, no internet, imagine that). Learn more about this formative period of my life here.
I'm an artist, musician, photographer, and graphic designer - self-taught in all these areas of endeavor. I am proficient in Photoshop, Macromedia Director, hand-coding html in BBEdit, Dreamweaver, print pre-press process (Quark) and web design and development. The computer - specifically the internet and Apple - changed my life. I've been online since 1993 when I got my first computer, a Mac Quadra 900 which at the time was top of the line and cost a small fortune with an incredible processor speed of 25 Mhz with a whopping 50MB of ram - those were the days. I love doing web design and everything you see on this site was created by me.
I am dedicated to releasing music and art that fights the banal and mediocre in today's watered-down mass media, and want to give the music listener and art collector some things to think about instead of anesthetizing them into complacency. How I hate to spoonfeed.
My interests are more varied and wide-ranging than anyone could imagine and include a keen interest in mid century modern art and style, Dada, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Man Ray, abstract expressionism, the infinite power of the subconscious mind, all forms of music, all things Apple including iPod iPhone iMac. I'm always learning, exploring, reading about new things and ideas. As if all that isn't enough, oh, yeah, I also own and operate a heavy metal music mailorder and record label which I started in 1996 called blackmetal.com.
2008 UPDATE: I am concentrating on visual art and I have new abstract expressionist artwork. My art is available as high quality Limited Edition signed giclee fine art prints, with an emphasis right now on abstract expressionism. I also am writing lyrics and recording music, scheduled for release sometime in 2008.
As much as I am interested in so-called peak performance and perfection, I am intrigued by doing just the opposite. I'm intrigued by fucking things up. Yet I'm obsessed with making things perfect. Maybe it's because I'm obsessed with perfection that fucking things up seems so attractive to me. This site is about my art and the stories of my life and the outrageousness of thought that always seems to work it's way into my mind.
