Artist Statement

Here are dreams, fleeting impressions, and other random acts of imagination.

The principal techniques involved are utilization of unintentional sleep-deprivation, mistake-ology, post-traumatic stress, wit, and mostly water-based media as tools of divination to extract imagery from the collective unconscious.

Discovering new skills via trial and error, I've taught myself painting, drawing, wood-carving, metalwork, web design, and animation. Having learned about art by absorbing storybooks (by Seuss, Silverstein, Gorey...) watching Sesame Street and The Muppets, and helping my grandma make crazy-quilts, my work illustrates a patchwork of brightly-colored characters.

A few themes that have surfaced are joy despite loss of innocence, embracing entropy and chaos, and the endless quagmire of adventure. These haven't developed intentionally. Making mistakes is my primary technique, so stories often become clear only after the paint dries.