artist. explorer. encourager. cook. curious fellow time traveler. panarchist. religious faith filled unbeliever.

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My soul loves a good surprise. My life is a journey of my love. After college I abandoned illustration to wash dishes at a 5 star restaurant. (I was a poor salesman with a very refined palate) I made zines and hosted events to cure midwestern boredom. I fell in love. It didn't work out. I screamed in a metal band. Hiked across America. I shared paintings and photography to poetically share my transformations and journeys. I biked across the Himalayas and my heart broke for the worlds lack of vision and creativity in the margins. I now live in the middle of America where the concrete weeds are overgrown and still spreading. In the cracks there is new life and unexpected community. The greatest surprise so far was to find sustainability near desolation and creativity in emptiness. I can’t wait for a better world to crash into this one so I’m attempting to make the most of what is most proximate.

Surfing between having & having not.

As single as I seem, I find myself wedded to many. Granted, I may not be making any literal babies with the kind of intimacy that I’m nurturing, but much life is being created. With an empty mailbox on Valentine’s day I am free to love those like me who trespass imagination’s unsung melody. We share wounds and let go of our otherness/loneliness to graft uncharted territories together in a relationship to end all destination. May Cupid pierce the barriers we build today and let love flow into and through us.

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