Paintings

This work explores the application of iconic imagery onto an everyday scene. The figures shown are of my wife and oldest son less than a week after his birth in 2011. This time in our lives was extremely difficult for our growing family. I had been discharged from the military a year prior, we were homeless and living with my mother-in-law, and I was severely addicted to morphine. By using a ref

This work was developed following an in-class prompt asking students to visually depict the passage of time. By dividing the work into a diptych that can be placed together, or displayed separately but in close proximity, this work conveys the human tendency toward dualism within the framework of describing a reality that is inherently non-dual and united on the subatomic level. While we experienc