About me

i like orange juice and green tea

Artist statement

I make images and installations that depict and celebrate inner conflict, and the fragility of the human mind. My recent paintings are made up of detailed studies, and guttural, nonsensical private writings that I then deface with scribbles, or more text. Then I repeat the process. This way of making is directly inspired by some posters and writings that I made during a drug-induced psychotic state, and through that process I utilize the shame and discomfort that I feel while looking at them.

My work is and always has been, highly biographical. Through objects that I have owned, used, and then retired, including blood and parts of my body, I immortalize my own history within the object. The pictures that I make incorporate as many aspects of myself as possible. I am ultimately, interested in physically preserving aspects of myself.

I also want to remind people that we are the same species that committed the atrocities of yesterday, and that we regularly deceive ourselves about the atrocities of today, such as slave labor in electronics and clothing, simply because it is useful to us and hard to go without. Most people are willing to bully others anonymously on the internet, reveling in the humiliation of others. Abusers are allowed to benefit from being in public places if they are more liked than their victims. Many people act as if the pandemic is over by not wearing masks, putting people with disabilities (and everyone else) in danger. If we are not discerning enough to denounce useful evils, the world will not improve.


When I make art that is politically pointed, I see to it that the work financially benefits, and rallies people to the cause it claims to support. When I make work in public, I hope that people will become kinder and more thoughtful because they came across it. Through my art, I want to remind people that we are all small piece of the best and worst of human history.


Exhibition History

  • Member of gallery, Minneapolis MN, Spring, 2021 https://

  • Member of gallery, Portland OR, Fall 2019 https://www.albertastreetgallery.com

  • Gallery, February 2018, Show, Portland OR https://splendorporium.net