 Hi, my name is Rob Wynn. My medium is grabbing things out of life, poetic ideas and references to art and literature using idiosyncratic weird materials and trying to turn them into my own particular vision of what I think they mean. Where do I draw inspiration from? You know, I actually don't draw inspiration from any one particular source. I think I came to being an artist in an era where the actual making of the work was where you got inspired, the actual doing of it. So it's like one thing, Max Ernst always said never leave something unfinished in your studio, always leave the end of something there so you can pick it up and start again. So I think inspiration is a little overrated and in fact it comes from thinking about and activating and doing your work. The inspiration comes out of your work. Why did I choose my medium? Because I was always curious about finding materials that weren't necessarily associated with fine art. So I started using string and embroidery and smoke and then when I was able to pick up a ladle of glass I really something clicked and it was a wonderful material to use. Do I have any creative rituals? I wish I did. I wish I had some magic thing that I could turn to to get started with my work. The short answer is no. The bigger answer is yes. The whole experience of my life and my relationships inform how I ritualize the activity of making my work but not one thing. How does living in New York inspire my practice? Well I don't think it does particularly. I feel like a sort of deranged editorial bird flying over the landscape before I am picking up things that I over here are appropriating imagery and text so it happens anywhere. I wouldn't say that it particularly even though I'm born in New York and I am in New York I don't really feel it has very much impact on my work per se. I think the great opportunity about being able to do the activation at the Brooklyn Museum was that as a student having gone to Pratt the Brooklyn Museum was kind of my spiritual home. So in order enabled being able to interact with the collection of the Americas was really fantastic experience and to kind of do research into the individual pieces that I chose to interact with was a really great gift for me as an artist and it was a great opportunity.