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.

stories and patterns

troubles twirl(build)

out of control seems uncommon

(supposed to be at least)

i am peculiar(alone)

we are strangers(not normal)

civilization teaches there are no needs except for status and power

(yet i long to love and be loved, know and be known)

and then the time when we are truly thirsty catches us off guard

where want crosses the threshold of need

wilderness is mean

God is unjust

life is a bad joke.

and yet its the life we’ve made(constructed)

the problems we’ve embraced or neglected

that are manufacturing the chaos in our stories

and the return to humility

takes not our fragility for granted

but accepts our strange natural wild nature…

embracing the day

no longer thinking that we control it or it us.

God is just.

Wilderness is beautiful.

Life is a dance within a 3 dimensionally rendered painting of fellow dancers, movements, stories, patterns… growing, dying, loving, learning,subverting, transcending.

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