As an artist I am a liminal secularist: “An oppositional critical practice whose meaning emerges in contrast to the practice of religious solidarity, nationalist movements, professionalism and ‘organic’ or class-aligned intellectualism” (Geeta Kapur, ‘Secular Artist, Citizen Artist,’ referencing Edward Said). Instead of attempting to define and enforce a universal moral ground we should strive to build public ethics that allow for the possibility of morality as private experiences by citizens (e.g. the right of minority groups to freely continue their belief systems). I choose to adopt an avant-garde or experimental aesthetic because I believe that a hegemonic, conventional, and conservative way of making, understanding, and witnessing art leads directly to a hegemonic control of people. My aesthetic is also personal because I find it insincere and destructive for an artist to subdue her subjective experience and presence with a universal code of production.