I have been on quite the journey since the last time I posted. I packed up and left Chicago, was planning to move to San Francisco, then through a convoluted series of events I found myself in Sunny Los Angeles. I like LA. Its always warm and sunny, the people are neat, and there is a ton of art. All that aside, I’ve felt impatient with the transition. Impatient about making new friends. Impatient to “be” where ever it is I envision myself in the future. Impatient to make art

A long time ago I found an image in National Geographic of a man holding an elk on his back. The image felt ancient and haunted to me, even though the article was about Canadian hunters and the lives they lived. I searched through magazine until I found other images of deer/human crosses and planned on creating a horned god triptych. I knew I wanted the colors of the final paintings to compliment the wall colors of my home (which are currently lime green, purple, and teal) an

Statement I wanted to make a collage of sounds for this project. Most of my art is multimedia and I didn’t want to stray away from that theme for this project. I collected a lot of sounds, some found, some created to blend together and create the ambient soundscape I am presenting. I recorded words from my poetry, lines from Genesis in the Bible, and blended that with found recordings from nature. I was interested in constructing somewhat of a narrative with the aural collage

It is as difficult to understand Zen Gardens as it is to understand one’s own self. (Parkes, p.10) “Zen Playground” was a performance I created in December and various different inspirations were synthesized to create my final project. Artists discussed in classes, concepts discovered in other lectures, and previous aspirations from my own life came together to create this performance piece. The performance revolves around three key ideas: physicality, inspiration from childr

Need Starting today  I want to upload one image of my art and talk about it, as a reflection for myself. I created this collage at my parents house while in my freshman year of college. It was one of those works that comes together seemelessly. All the pictures, colors and texts came together with ease and speed. The work corresponds to a conversation I had with a friend about who our Gods are in the modern day. They had read a book on “Modern Magic” and it discussed Gods suc