artist. explorer. encourager. cook. curious fellow time traveler. 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.

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One of the most incredible times of my life… and of coarse unplanned and unexpected… talking about the life,the journey, the way of the spirit that we all find ourselves a part of, the family of people that we are connected, committed, and called to in love… the diversity of expression birthing from a common identity.. the marriage of complicated faith applications, paradoxical perceptions and beliefs, and our divided definitions of self and reality… the union under the slain homeless Palestinian Jew whose kingdom proclaims peace, mercy, and reconciliation through love… enemy love… even to the point of death.

returning to the wilderness. being the kingdom. choosing to learn and follow Jesus.

pilgrimage, provision, transparency, needs, tipis, art, common spaces, community turned family, balance turned marriage. slave turned free. life through death. (self sacrifice not murder) strange loop of truth. calling and re-membering of all things. behold.

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