A series in watercolor, gouache, and clay pigment on architectural plans, about industry's life after death in America.

In this series, I examine "Triggers" of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Combat Veterans. Triggers are all around us- the crowded subway, an unattended backpack, children playing with toy guns, the holidays. For Combat Veterans, these trigger an emotional uprooting and start a path of hyper-vigilance.

Each of the six boxes isolates a potential trigger, seen by looking through cut-outs in a forefront figure. I want to show how Veterans can acknowledge a situation as a potential trigger in order for them to rationally dismiss a threat they might otherwise emotionally engage.

Sketchbooks for me are about getting that image down in the moment; recording memory, and looking back at a different me, in another place.

I go to museums and galleries like it's a sport, I try to see as much as I can; and when I can spend some time with a piece of art, drawing it, trying to understand why it's holding me like it does, it's like finding a small truth. It's like understanding another piece of the puzzle, something clicks. Here are a few studies of some of my biggest influences: Soutine, Bacon, Freud, Kollwitz, and Serra, for starters.

Here is a little about me and my artistic process.

I have also included some pictures related to an accident I was in on August 5th, 2012. That night I went under the last set of wheels of an 18-wheeler, fuel tanker tractor-trailer, while riding my bicycle. I went to Shock Trauma with seven fractures and a degloving of my right leg, among other injuries. I am posting this because since the accident happened it's affetced my life greatly. I have a small understanding of how lucky I am to be alive and have no doubt everything I have been through will have an impact on my artwork.