Sergio Gomez: Can you tell me more about your Rescue or Destroy concept?
Allen: To shine a light on the importance & value of art. I want people to look at art in a different way. It is hard to know if other people actually respect & value art.

I want to know if there is a place in this world for my art & what value it holds. I also wish to weed out what I have produced. Letting the audience choose what will be rescued and which will be destroyed is a way of monitoring my progress & determining which artwork would be considered valuable. Also people tend to be fickle minded. I have been in situation where prospect buyers do keep you on a string for months and months. With Rescue or Destroy there is no next month, there is no tomorrow, there is only now. If you don’t buy it then I destroy it. My work will hang on walls and be viewed by all or it will be destroyed.

Rescue & Destroy is also a great way of getting people to pay closer attention to art. There are so many good artists. Sometimes you need a little something extra to stand out. I have been a creator for so long every once in a while its good to be a destroyer. In fact I believe that the fragments of the work hold value because they are remnants of the original work that can never be recreated.

Over all I’m trying to find the answers to the following questions: What is good art & who decides this? What standards does art deserve to be hanging on the walls of a museum & therefore be immortalized in history? Which artwork will end up in a landfills or be painted over?