The second half of a graphic novel in graphite, the fictional account of a woman who inherits her best friend's son, a refugee from Sarajevo. The conclusion to In The Hands of Boys, Xeric winner for 2005, also winner of Best Comic for the Citypaper's Best of Baltimore 2005.

Painted boards over doors and windows of abandoned houses on 20th St between Greenmount Ave and Barclay St. In collaboration with Melody Often, Daniel Everett, and Annie Gray Robrecht.

Eventually Everyone Wants To Go Home was my contribution to the Baltimore Time Travel Anthology which I organized in 2011. 88 pages long, BTTA featured work from such Baltimore artists as: Bat Favitsou Boulandi, Michael Bracco, Chelsea Carr, Ben Claassen III, Jonathan Eaton, Eamon Espey, Emilja Frances, Monica Gallagher, Dina Kelberman, Rebecca Mock, Jon Powell, Annie Gray Robrecht, Gavin Schmitt, Kim Te, Josh Van Horne, Catherine Wang, and Tim Yingling.

Each painting depicts the backwater carnival of sublimated desires. I am reacting to the sensual application of color.

Bea is a gloomy teenager whose flight malfunction deposits her among the boulders for a dog to find. An oddly dressed elderly woman takes her in and is thereby reunited with her grandson.

The elderly woman enlists her grandson for transportation of Bea's unconscious body. The villagers accept that a new person may be joining the old woman's brood. The three return to the cliff side compound to resume operation of the family apothecary business.

The cliff side compound is walking distance from the monastery school where the monk resides. The old woman conducts a lizard ceremony to repair Bea's injured body. Bea is visited by a monkey and the giant fish head.

Bea is gripped with the desire to escape. Her vision not fully healed, she carefully finds a stairway through the room of the lizard ceremony and ending on the forest floor. The old woman and the monk and the dog find her near the stream. Once at the apothecary Bea discovers an old tape player marked with the initials D.N.A.