Junk Mail Migration Paintings
The Junk Mail Migration painting series explores the direct impact of junk mail on the immediate environment – our backyards. Many of our favorite songbirds breed, live, and migrate to/from the Boreal Forest, only passing through Iowa seasonally.
Backyard Botanical Gouache Paintings
These plein air field studies in natural ink and gouache capture the vitality and beauty of even the humblest plant. Native, naturalized, and invasive plants are all captured equally as they appear in the backyard throughout the seasons.
Art Vacancy COVID Edition
Art Vacancy Downtown provided exhibition space, a stipend, and public art viewing in Downtown Ames, Iowa during the 2020 pandemic shutdown and recovery. Funding was provided in part by the Iowa Arts Council grant program.
Aura - Clonic - Tonic
A sculptural installation composed of three beeswax cell groupings that ranged in size from 5x6', 8x12' and 4'x20'. The introduction to the debut show was an MRI of my brain post seizure projected over a 8' graphite drawing of my skull x-ray post seizure when my nose was broken.