I am often inspired by the written word – a poem, a lyric, a quote – and enjoy trying to create images that capture the ideas those words elicit. Sometimes the result is literal, often it is lateral. I see these images as illuminations – marginalia, perhaps – much like those images that adorned medieval manuscripts and religious texts.

A collection of artworks inspired during and after the trying times that were the year 2020 – pandemic isolation, social injustice, the war on women, school shootings, and more.

Found photos. Unposed and minimally edited. 

An examination of the new manifesting from the old. The worn made fresh. A look at second chances; at third chances; at hope that springs eternal.

The series 'Thoughts Held in Mind' primarily reflects the words of the great thinkers of our past that still hold up to scrutiny today. More than platitudes, these ideas offer meaningful perspective in a noisy modern world. These placards, notecards, wall hangings, etc., are culled from my own scrapbook of collected writings – a tradition more common in an earlier time and made particularly notable by Elbert Hubbard's work at the Roycroft campus in East Aurora, NY.  I try to give these ideas accessibility as well as an element of style using typography, ornamentation, and presentation in the hopes that they will continue to live on for many years to come.

"The Dawning" is a series of intentionally constructed "decisive moments" that reflect on the startling beauty and pain that can be found when we recognize our own mortality within a world that existed long before us and that will continue long after we are gone.

Artistic depictions of the human form.

Anthesis is the 18th century modern Latin term for the botanical process of the bud-break and blossoming of a flower. My series 'Humanthesis' visually expresses a similar process we find in the human condition. We begin closed, mentally and physically, to the world around us. But there is a pressure far older than humanity that pushes us forward, a primordial desire to engage with the world around us. To see and to be seen. For life demands nothing more than that we live until we die. All buds break; all flowers wilt. Life, and our experience of it, happens in between.