The canary in the coal mine When she stops singing Lives are on the line None more so than hers I never thought I’d live to see music stop And I know it never truly did Wherever there are humans There is music And yet It went oddly quiet for a time Times and half […]
Artwork
The Banquet
Blurreds of the Field
Love Your Anemones
Worlds Away
Below the Surface II
Below the Surface I
Overcoming Disynclination
From Seed to Flower and Back Again
Depth Perception VIII: Moon and Stars
Internal Communications
There is a stage every painting I create goes through at the very beginning that I fall in love with almost every time. It’s not the polished end-game, it’s the initial quick sketch with the first few thin washes of color applied. There is something about that first reaction to the scene before me that […]… ► CONTINUE READING
Listen to Her
Music of the Spheres
Depth Perception #7
Yield for Tractor
Depth Perception VI
Origin Story
Ella’s Point
This was pure imagination, but not all my own. My wife and I had been tasked to give some art instruction to a friend’s daughter as part of an independent study art class she was in at her local high school. You have to know one thing- I am not a very good teacher. I […]… ► CONTINUE READING
Bamboozled
Afternoon Commitments
Hitting the High Notes
Dust and Ashes
Depth Perception #5
There is something primordial about staring into the blackness of the deep. A sense of heightened awareness is stirred because, well, mostly because monsters. So we feel safer in shallow waters where we can see with all certainty that no such monsters lurk. And yet if the ocean is really moving its the shallows with […]
Depth Perception #4
Our bodies are made of rocks, sand, and clay. Veins of metal pulse beneath. Mining operations are blood transfusions that keep the gods on life support. Our spirits disturbed, distant storms, fueled by the heat of life-giving fire, translates the language that created the first world into the depths of our subconsciousness, reverberating in pulses […]… ► CONTINUE READING