My art is cultivated with the intention of presenting a manifestation of permanence by way of the temporal, and an offering to the divine feminine, whom I find to reside in all the living and sentient things of our natural environment. I am deeply influenced by this seemingly endless abundance of life and evolutionary history, as well as the fragility of our world.

 

In the years following my experience as a combat photographer in the war in Iraq, while enlisted as a soldier in the US army, I have come to understand more lucidly the thin ties that bind mortals to this realm, and like so many other survivors of trauma, I discovered a process for healing through a life of devoted art practice. My work contains these themes of life and death, light and shadow, rot and decay, and compassion and redemption.

 

Using only raw, analog materials like ink and watercolor, and saltwater from the ocean, I find that these mediums help to further connect me with the Earth and to conceptualize my art by using a language of literal, as well as symbolic visual expressions.

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