Professionally, he considers himself to be an educator who inquires in and through a variety of discourses that relate to curriculum theory, complexity, social theories, and contemporary art. He likes to think about possibilities and perspectives. Teaching is a highlight in his life because he thoroughly enjoys sharing thoughts and ideas in relation to a variety of beliefs and practices. He thinks many people think he is solely a conceptual artist, but he also really loves objects and old-school aesthetic inquiry. He loves making functional objects and the notion of skill and craft. He taught art at the secondary level for over a decade and he began an academic career in 2005 when he began a doctoral program at the University of British Columbia. He currently teaches curriculum, issues in contemporary art, technologies and new media for art educators, and various graduate courses on writing in art education, qualitative research methodologies, and educational history and theory at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.