This group of small paintings (the entire series was 27 paintings in total) in acrylic, pen, and collage on paper mounted on wood was created in 2007. I was digging through some old papers and found an old geology textbook. Inspired by the abstractions of some of the imagery, I based this work on reactions to diagrams.

I remember being fascinated in that geology class by the lab section in which we worked with minerals, drew maps, and calculated artesian aquifers. Opposite to everyone else in the class, I aced the labs (with my ridiculously detailed drawings) and made my way through the tests in a sadly mediocre fashion (memorization of facts has always been very tedious to me). Going back to the textbook, I can see how inspiring the visualization of these ideas are.

This series of pen and acrylic paintings on paper were all created in 2008. These paintings have (and still are, as I am still currently continuing this work) expanded upon the black and white drawings in the Digit Series (also listed here). I think of these as further explorations of those forms, almost as if I am looking in further and discovering another layer beneath the original forms.

Though I was not consciously thinking of it at the time, these paintings reveal color (unlike the black and white Digit Series). It is as if I had to take the time to sit with the original forms, spend time with them, and then discover the more complex and individual nature of each one.

This series of drawings with pen on paper were all created in 2008. These drawings have become a rather meditational process for me. Although they appear very technical and intricate, they are really very intuitively made. I enjoy the surprise form of each end product and the individual shape each creates, even though they all contain very similar elements.

These paintings were all created in 2009 in no particular order or grouping. Most are acrylic on paper, some mounted on wood.

Gastric Series is a series of small paintings (pen and acrylic on paper), each 6" x 5".

I installed a multimedia window space in the bottom floor of the MICA studio building on North Avenues. The show was titled "a light box" and curated by Catherine Akins. Please see a description of The Temporary below:

The Temporary acts as a vehicle that engages the diverse audiences that not only exist at MICA but also in the surrounding Station North neighborhood. The unique nature of the space lends nicely to it's mission. For one thing, The Temporary exists solely as a window space creating a distinct dynamic. The gallery allows North Avenue to see into the space but does not offer open public access, making it the first of it's kind.

The Temporary will open 10 exhibitions from November 2011-May 2012 that will be individually curated by a member of the Curatorial Practice MFA program at MICA. Each exhibition will stay up for approximately three weeks.

All animation is either hand drawn frame by frame or 2D using After Effects. Please see individual videos for specific project descriptions.

Fox's Misunderstandings is a series about misunderstandings, miscommunications, and misinterpretations. (And how sometimes the “mis” is more interesting than the intended original.)

I am interested in the reinterpretation of found imagery. So much of what we see and experience every day gets lost in translation from one person's interpretation to the next. But I think that's where the humor, the beauty, and the unique variety between each individual lie.

I tend to form creatures and situations that tell a story which get lost when trying too hard to put them into words, though the quotes below touch on that difficulty with language.


“To my eyes, objects have always been livelier than human beings. More static but also more telling. More moving because of their concealed meanings and their memory, which beats the human memory. Objects are keepers of the events they have witnessed… I have always tried to extract content from the objects, to listen to the objects themselves and to put their stories into images.”
- Jan Svankmeyer

“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets [it] adapt of its own accord.”
- John Cage

“Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, from The Little Prince, Chapter XXI (the fox)