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.

reframing make and model

identity lost in flux of stuff and capacity

though resourcefulness and imagination will make a way despite being lost

redefining identity through the risk of honesty and the travel of our weaknesses into willfulness

shedding excess as a blessing for others and a need for ourselves

engaging the present with open eyes and ears

seemingly vulnerable, messy, dirty, improper, incorrect, irresponsible, impossible.

touching truth though its repulsive

being transformed by the two way street sewn in the hearts of humanity.

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