Born in 1976, Van Dyke was raped when she was eleven years old by her foster father and foster brother. The burden of her traumatic memories has caused her to create what some might call highly disturbing art pieces. She frequently discusses the idea of cannibalism, and has openly claimed that she herself was a cannibal. She commonly uses cannibalism as a metaphor for evil within modern society, such as businessmen eating each other and eating the poor in order to make themselves fat/rich. She often titles her work with numbers and uses models, claiming she dislikes her own body.
She spent over three years in a mental asylum, where she placed herself voluntarily. She was finally released in the Spring of 2005. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Most recently, she made the news for chopping off her little toe, putting it in a jar and offering it to a gallery as a work of art. The gallery - which preferred to be unnamed - refused, and called the police.
She combines religion, violence, guns, sexuality and humour in images (sometimes with text) in order to poke fun at society, society's obsession with sex, and the patriarchal treatment of young underage women as sex objects.
The artist admits a strong thirst to eat the flesh of humans, but objects to the immorality of killing.
