Like most things in life, the work has come faster than the words. I can spend a long time contemplating the use of language and its perception by the reader or listener, but what will come out comes out without regard anyway. This writing is already in the past. The thoughts and inspirations that revealed […]

   It has been said, and I perfectly agree, that there is a deep and romantic sense of urgency about my work. At times, I feel as if that if I don’t get IT out or HAVE it in that moment, a part of me will die. This NEED, this catalyst, will cease to exist and […]

   All things have a point of origination. That origination can be organic and internal or can be inspirational and external. At times the internal and external collide and burst into ideas that can manifest great things.  Like the sand and stone drug from the river bed, past experience, creativity, and events begin to trickle […]

When I embarked on this journey of creating an altered book for and about my practicum experiences; I at first felt very opposed. The idea of destroying something so sacred and special that’s sole purpose was to convey thought, meaning, and beauty felt naughty and disrespectful. Once I began to encounter, engage, and understand the […]

Call for images: Currently, I am constructing a 2ft by 4ft wood panel mixed media painting. The subject matter of this painting includes the prevailing institutionalized attitudes among many of our social climate. The intention of the work is to use vocabulary and portraiture to expose these systematic flaws of our social classification system. Included […]

It seems that I am no longer stuck in that idle complacent gear of neutrality. I have been thinking for days and adding to an ever growing collection of notes and musings. I have plugged back in to something undefinable, while disengaging from the 24 second flashes that had lulled me into this state of […]

As of late, that wicked beast, insomnia, has kept me from my dreams. (Or is it drawing me nearer to my dreams?) Nonetheless, years ago I felt that implicit need to create and I feel that same insatiable drive now. My creativity had waned for years, my energies having been spent up on other fruitful […]