Project Index
Note: Galleries rotate in terms of available viewing. Reasons can include adding new content, curating from an archive, or retiring older work.
Visual Art
Reconciliations (2021)
A small collections of paintings made for others during the mid-pandemic tumult and panic.
A Glow In The Static (2020)
Digital collages created in the early days of the pandemic amidst news that seemed to not provide any information.
Fake Flowers Last Forever (*2020)
An ongoing series of paintings which explore the parallels life and beauty and death and decay.
Standing Still In A Storm (*2015)
A meditative practice of using parallel lines to detach from anxiety in times of extreme stress.
Next Comes The Flood (2019)
A 12-page single-edition book of hand-painted black rectangles in an examination of the subtle differences in darkness.
Valence (2017-2018)
Large-scale assemblies exploring the fundamental ideas of the invisible energy that bonds us all.
Kill The Precedent (2017-2021)
Unapologetic anticapitalist propaganda. We all have our politics.
part ii (2018)
Excerpts from a series of sketchbooks concentrating on the various factors in my life that had seemed to change my relationship with art.
First Friday (2016-2019)
Promotional posters designed to promote the monthly DIY art shows in Portland that my friends and I co-produced.
Nothing Here Can Kill You (2016)
The idea of art as a threat, or what pictures on paper are dangerous versus which ones aren’t, can be a real head trip.
Photography
About America (2012-2021)
Film-based street photography from a decade of travelling around the United States.
80 (2012-2019)
Rotating select images from an extensive archive of international street photography.
My Favorite Color (2012-2019)
Black and white has always been my preferred film for street photos; this is a gallery of color selects.
Snapshots (*2012)
A rotating selection of daily images captured by a smartphone that range in content and location.
Street Rip City (2012-2019)
Portland, Oregon is the one city I’ve resided in long enough to consider a version of ‘home.’ These are black and white photos from its streets.
No Heroes On My Radio (2005-2015)
Punk shows were my introduction to photography as a practice—these are rotating selects from hundreds of shows photographed over a ten-year span.
… you were looking away (2015-2017)
Sick of the ‘perfection’ digital cameras were mainstreaming, I began to use the manual mechanics of film cameras against the idea of capturing such images.
The Dissonance Polaroids (2015-2017)
An instant film-based series using the potential saturation of the format to create abstract color fields in each exposure.
Laundromat Zen (2009-2012)
A personal photo series exploring the strange, lonely spaces of empty public laundromats in San Francisco.
A Heart Floats In The Bay (2009-2012)
Digital stills from daily life while living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
Books
Gap Year Book Club (2021-2022)
Eight books created and published over the course of one calendar year; links to all individual titles can be found on this page.
Volume Three (2019)
Every so often I release a summary of work under the Distorted Perspective masthead as an art book; this, the third, constitutes 2012-2019.
Issue One (2020)
Intended as a zine in a project that became Gap Year Book Club, this debut issue remains.
False Positive (2016)
An early experiment utilizng abstract photography and semi-legible poetry in a limited-run book about the weight of loss.
Out of Mind (2015)
A meditation on the individual and the mind that comes with being one, this was as much a project about the format of the book as it was the content.
Sound Art
Asterisk (*2016)
A loop-based sound project of guitar swells and piano meditations born from random collaborations at First Friday shows.
Tetrahedron (2016-2018)
Birthed in the dark and cold warehouses of southeast Portland in winter-time, Tetrahedron was a three-guitar distortion blizzard.
