Originally designed as a tattoo concept, this painting was a continuation in a series of watercolors that allowed me to explore the juxtaposition of watercolor with geometric and natural imagery. While exploring this new medium, I focused on creating a story of the marriage of the natural and the inorganic. The aim was to combine creations of the mind with creations of the earth, to serve as a reminder that all things are inspired by and originate from the earth and its gifts. Both the jaguar and crow are two mystical creatures with their own lore throughout cultures, both symbols of rebirth, death and transformation, serving as a fierce reminder of our mortality.

Fierce Oversight

50x60cm

watercolor on cotton paper

November 2023

Originally designed as a tattoo concept, this painting was the first in a series of watercolors that allowed me to explore the juxtaposition of watercolor with geometric and natural imagery. While exploring this new medium, I focused on creating a story of the marriage of the natural and the inorganic. This piece symbolizes the fact that we are only able to experience life through the lens of nature.

Mirroriposa

50x60cm

watercolor on cotton paper

October 2023

The imagery combined to make Illusion of Life was over 7 months in the making. Starting just beyond the jungle of Costa Rica, on a beach at sunrise during a sacred medicine ceremony, a golden scarab visited me. It was adorned with all kinds of gems and intergalactic geometry and it began weaving patterns between the waves and sand. This imagery stayed with me and I thought about it often. While visiting Jordan and Israel nearly 7 months later, this same scarab visited me, but this time it was accompanied by other animals from the region that I was in. There was a unity within the dream that was contrasted by the mentality of the people of the region. While working on the piece, I was thinking about the realities in which we live… comprised entirely in our minds by our own individual perceptions. I don’t think that these animals that visited me were speaking of actual animals, but more of a call to attempt to unite our own individual realities. The work isn’t about the physical representation of animals or the locations they are from, but rather an idea of being alive in a space that transcends time, connecting us all through a historical and loving lens.

Illusion of Life

36”x36”

Acrylic on canvas

September 2019

Deaths Awakening was painted live at Wakaan Music Festival in Arkansas and is reactive to UV light. The concepts and imagery were conceived through the studying of art history and a lot of thinking about my own personal beliefs. Within history and practice, geometry is a symbol for wholeness, perfection and divinity. Geometry is something that is so natural but appears so otherworldly when compared with typical life. In contrast, the skull and roses are traditional symbols of ‘Memento mori’ or a reminder of death and mortality. The combination of these symbols within Deaths Awakening speak to a belief that I hold: although we are mortal, the divine and conscious parts of ourselves remain after death and often reveal themselves through death. Consciousness and divinity are universal, steadfast, and unwavering… even when our bodies and world is not.

Deaths Awakening

28”x36”

UV Acrylic on Canvas

October 2019

Queen of Hearts is a painting that was created live at Ozora Music Festival in Hungary. The painting was created entirely on site and traveled with me to over 5 countries after the festival. The painting is a study of the reflections fo self morphed into a heart of egg shape. The colors were circumstantial based on what was available where I stopped to find paint. Unlike my usual mode of working, the imagery of a self portrait morphing into one another came to me during the beginning days of the festival and manifested to completion by the end.

Queen of Hearts

50 cm x 60 cm

acrylic on canvas

August 2019

Playing with symmetrical improvisational painting and UV layering, Angel Kitty is a memorial painting for my dear cat Simba who passed away. The painting focuses on happy and playful colors and ornate portraiture with more organic geometry.

Angel Kitty
24" x 36" 
Acrylic and UV on panel

May 2019

Self Bloom is a painting that was started during a time of immense struggle, acting as a form of therapy, this painting was completely improvisational. Moving away from highly planned work, this painting allowed me to play with color, form, tone, and layering in new ways.

Self bloom 
Acrylic and UV on panel 
18”x24"

April 2019

Ornate Lilies is a piece inspired by a still life installation. While I typically do not paint still lives and the traditional side of “academic” art, I see the value in it and was experimenting on ways to make it interesting to me. How can I look at a set up, come up with a design and concept that is something I want to create?
This piece goes to show that you can take inspiration from anything, you just have to look hard enough.

“Ornate Lilies” 
14 inches x 14 inches 
Screen printed paper and acrylic on panel 

February 2019

Hell’s Angels is a painting that explores abstraction within the human figure. Releasing the maker from delineating complex forms and tones within the body shapes, this work was a release and permission to move into greater abstraction.

“Hell’s Angels” 
36”x24” 
Acrylic on wood panel

November 2018

Rainbow Metamorphosis is the depiction of a vision and material experimentation with new kinds of glazing (the rainbow effect). It plays with more organic patterning and new sensibilities to transparency and ground.

"Rainbow Metamorphisis"
30"x40"
Acrylic on Panel

December 2018

Forest Beings is a painting showing the hallucination I experienced that was induced by a relationship in my life, completely oriented by trees and a feeling of ‘one-ness’; it is UV reactive, revealing an entirely new image when exposed to blacklight. This image was painted live in St. Louis for Positive Vibrations and Astral Lights Music Festival.

"Forest Beings" 
24"x36" 
Acrylic on canvas

September 2018

One with Nature is a painting inspired by traveling to Egypt, using images from my trip as well as laser cut stenciling from patterns found in various locations around the country.

“One with Nature” 
30” x 38” 
Acrylic on canvas

August 2018

The Unfolding depicts a vision I had, combining ideas of presence with geometry, allowing the human form and inorganic to exist in the same space.

“Unfolding”
18” by 24”
Acrylic on panel

Metatron is a painting that combines principles of flow and sacred symbols coming together to create a contentious emblem.

“Metatron”
18” by 24” 
Acrylic on panel

Transcendence depicts a digitally oriented vision that I had and highlights how digital media influences my unconscious mind and visual aesthetic.

“Transcendence”
18” by 24” 
Acrylic on panel

Meditation was a unique vision I had involving more organic shapes, layering and glazing that have become critical to my more recent work.

“Meditation”
18” by 24” 
Acrylic on panel

Blue Mandala was the first in a series of works that explored 3D painting by using CNC routing technology.

“Blue Mandala”

10” by 10”

Acrylic on 3D panel, inset into frame

Fractals in White is a Painting exploring the digitally rendered repetition of shapes to create a figure relationship to the ground plane.

"Fractuals in White" 
22" x 32" 
acrylic on 3D wooden panel

Seeds of Green is a CNC routed wood panel that investigates the tessellation of sacred geometry and playfulness within a strict color palette.

“Seeds of Green”

24”x36” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

Self Portrait is a panel that uses CNC routing and the manipulation of color to play with the 3-dimensionality.

“Self portrait” 
24x36” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

“Mint anf Pumpkin” 
10”x10” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

“Fractals in Red” 
12”x24” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

“Blue Symbol” 
12”x12” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

“Purple Mandala” 
12”x12” 
Acrylic on 3D wooden panel

Green Society painting from a still life from a magazine clipping, it highlights societal comments as well as speaks to high fashion, pop culture, and psychedelic tendencies.

"Green society" 
12”x16"
oil on canvas

Focus shows a more realistically rendered human form deconstructed, making a comment on the digital editing and aesthetic of the 21st century, tangentially related as a starting point for my current work.

“Focus”

14”x16”

Acrylic on Canvas

When I am Blue is a self portrait that invokes the deconstruction of ones self using digital methodologies.

"When I'm Blue" 
16x20 
acrylic on canvas

Abduction is a painting employing twisted perspective and foreshortening, worked on a large scale and painted entirely live in 3 days at Dancefestopia Music Festival.

"Falling"
6 feet x 3 feet 
Acrylic on Canvas 

Live painted at Blizzard Music Festival

“Transparent love”
18” x 24”
acrylic on canvas

Dysmorphia was the first in a series of paintings that investigate the human form deconstructed in a digital way, entirely created from paint, this series focuses on the shifting of anatomy and the viewers eyes confused on what is painted and what is digital. Live painted at Zomboy and the Potluck at the house

”Dysmorphia”
20” x 16”
Acrylic on Canvas

“Flow”
8”x10"
Acrylic on Canvas

Live painted at Yellow Claw

“Four Eyes”
16”x18"
Acrylic on canvas

“Nature”
21”x21"
Acrylic on Panel with Resin