Circumambiance, 2019
La Dame en Bleu, 2019
La Dame en Rouge (detail), 2019
Self-Portrait, 2020
Te Extraño, 2023
Stealth, 2024
Adjust, 2022
Clonycavan Man, 2023
Callow, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
Exquisite Corpse I, 2020
The UFO Did It, 2019
Schrödinger's Cat I
Bearded Lady, 2019
Exquisite Corpse II, 2020
Page from Sketchbook, 2020
Sagittarius, 2020
Schrödinger's Cat II, 2018
Ephyrae, 2019
Rorschach Test I, 2018
Sketch, 2022
Sacrifice, 2020
Te Quiero, 2023
Medusa, 2019
Rorschach Tesy II, 2018
Millipede, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
Spread from Sketchbook, 2022
Oblivion, 2020
Exquisite Corpse III, 2020
Brigade, in collaboration with Vvii, 2023
Circumambience (detail), 2019
Bronze Foot in front of a Sphinx, 2021
Tollund Man, 2023
Icarus, 2019
Rorschach Test III, 2019
Rouse, in collaboration with Vvii, 2023
Exquisite Corpse IV, 2020
Angel, 2020
I Look So Different, 2020
Mai, 2018
Conjoined, 2019
Juvenile, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
It's More Fun Than It Looks
Justice, 2020
Storm, 2020
Tree Stump In Washington Square Park, 2020
Be My Eyes, 2024
Study of "Cadmus Slays a Dragon" by Hendrik Goltzius, 2023
La Dame en Bleu (detail), 2018
La Dame en Rouge, 2018
Cirque, 2019
Circumambiance, 2019Circumambiance is a mixed media piece made in 2019. This extremely kaleidoscopic structure is contained tightly in a square composition. The image is in limited color and communicates extreme volume with a black background, devoid of any sense of atmosphere. The subject’s extremely complex anatomy is skeletal and full of cavities and spiky jointed limbs, contrary to the various fleshy, lilac-eyed faces hidden throughout the fictional creature. It is so transparent, it could be made of blown glass. Its anatomy resembles both arthropods and the skeletons of diatoms.
La Dame en Bleu, 2019La Dame en Bleu, 22” x 5’, gouache and pastel on paper, 2019.La Dame en Bleu is a five-foot-tall mixed media piece made in 2019. This post-anthropic trans figure is imposed in a contained, fluid motion. The spiraling repetitive forms and maze of twinkling lights throughout its long body resembles the bioluminescent animals of the deep sea. Beyond the reach of the Sun, she creates her own light, from her glowing crown to the tendrils at her base. She was inspired by the relation the ocean has to optics, as it replates to the artist’s own vision impairment and colorblindness.
La Dame en Rouge (detail), 2019
Self-Portrait, 2020This is a self-portrait of the artist drawn in black ink. The short hatching marks used to imitate shadow are as scattered as a blanket of pine leaves that have fallen off a tree. Her hair trails down and breaks off in wispy stands over the white background.
Te Extraño, 2023
Stealth, 2024Stealth, acrylic gouache and pastel on gesso board, 8” x 8”, 2024Stealth is a small-scale, mixed media drawing, evoking the feeling of uncertainty. A personified piece of soot floats aimlessly among glowing embers and illuminated by a fire out of our reach. Her mouth emits a blue glow and her eyes are darkened and closed. Her form is lumpy and non-descript like a volcanic rock or a wad of raw clay. She spirals into oblivion with no worry.
Adjust, 2022A face is lit completely white from left side (of the viewer), leaving the right side dark. The side that is in shadow reveals razor-thin, metallic rings, conforming to the shape of the face. They start from the tip of the nose and radiate all the way to the outer edges of the face and down the neck and shoulders. The left side of the face is almost entirely white except for a few marks.A black shadow where the right eye would be reveals an eye socket and an upper lid. The right side of the mouth is also black, like they are wearing black lipstick only on the right side. The left eye is illustrated by one bold line indicating the lash line of the upper lid of a closed eye and a shadow represented by a continuation of the ring pattern.The left side of the mouth and nose are indicated by two lines, where the nostril is and where the lips meet. The ears are indicated by their own set of rings. Down the neck, the rings continue on the left side as well as the left; however, on the left side, the rings are black against white instead or white against black. The muscles in the neck and the clavicle are highlighted by having the inverse effect. The background is a dense black.Altogether, the figure in this image is almost featureless, with an egg-shaped head and no hair. Like a robot.
Clonycavan Man, 2023
Callow, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
Exquisite Corpse I, 2020
The UFO Did It, 2019
Schrödinger's Cat ISchrödinger’s Cat I is a mixed media sketch made in 2020. The ovular composition contained in a landscape format is a nod to Art Nouveau designers like René Lalique. At the top is a milky blue eyes looking outward. To the left is a cool gray hairless cat laying down. On the right is its decaying equivalent. Each of the cats tails arch around with thorn like appendages and connect to the eye. The tails also end with two prongs that are ejecting pearlescent spheres, white ones coming from the living cat and black ones coming from the dead car. Scattered throughout are more spheres separated by fissures. Everything converges to the exact center of the composition, marked by a single blue sphere. This illustrates the quantum physical phenomenon known as superposition. The cats denote the thought experiment named for Erwin Schrödinger.
Bearded Lady, 2019Bearded Lady is a mixed media piece made in 2019. A transparent humanoid head levitates in black void, only visible by its bright white halo. The head is devoid of any human features except for its mouth. An organized series of pores and spikes occupies the majority of its form. Along its chin is a thorny “beard”.
Exquisite Corpse II, 2020
Page from Sketchbook, 2020
Sagittarius, 2020
Schrödinger's Cat II, 2018Schrödinger’s Cat II is a mixed media sketch made in 2020. The composition is like a addition sign contained in a circle. At the top and bottom are two eyes, one a pale lime green and the other a pale blue. To the left is a hairless cat laying down. On the right is its mummified equivalent. The blue eye is focused on the living cat while the green eye is focused on the dead cat. Each of the cats tails connect to the eye that is observing them. Scattered throughout are small blue marble-like spheres separated by fissures. Everything converges to the exact center of the composition, marked by a single blue sphere. This illustrates the quantum physical phenomenon known as superposition. The cats denote the thought experiment named for Erwin Schrödinger.
Ephyrae, 2019
Rorschach Test I, 2018
Sketch, 2022
Sacrifice, 2020
Te Quiero, 2023
Medusa, 2019
Rorschach Tesy II, 2018
Millipede, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
Spread from Sketchbook, 2022In these pages from my sketchbook, I use ink to peruse every detail of faces, or “heads” I simply can’t forget. Eight portraits demonstrate the range of my visual interests. On the top left corner is a young girl, drawn from a painting I saw at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She’s limp with long, shiny hair. Her face is pretty with a fatigued expression, but her eyes are unusually far apart, which motivated me to draw her.Immediately to her right is a veiled woman, representing Joy in Raffaelle Monti’s “Sleep of Sorrow, Dream of Joy”. Her face and the fabric become one. Below her is the skull of a baby who died from extreme hydrocephalus. In this case, the skull has opened up like a tulip, due to the excessive volume of fluid in the brain.To their right is a face made entirely of radiating rings, beginning at one point in the center of the nose and moving outward around the head, all the way down the neck and shoulders. This is drawn from a study of heads by Pavel Tchelitchew. Its contemplative expression is maybe the most humanizing thing about this otherwise uncanny portrait. Framing the bottom is a sickly-looking bird with a long, narrow neck and beak, drawn from a Dutch painting. Its plumage at the top of its head looks wilted and lifeless.On the top middle is a Japanese snow monkey in a hot spring. Its expression is so peaceful and relaxed with its eyes closed and its lips in the shape of a small “o”. On the top right is the profile of a child, drawn from a sculpture at the Met Museum. Their shoulder-length hair forms tight coils with the hair at the crown laying flat.At the bottom middle is a portrait of a Crowned Victoria Pigeon. Its head plumage is several long, sparse feathers with intersecting hairs that end in the shape of a Chinese fan. To its right is a tiny Texas Blind Salamander. Bisecting the right side horizontally is a long stalk, ending in a spiral, drawn from a photograph by Karl Blossfeldt.
Oblivion, 2020
Exquisite Corpse III, 2020
Brigade, in collaboration with Vvii, 2023Brigade, acrylic gouache and pastel on paper, 18” x 18”, 2023.Brigade illustrates the song of the same title by indie musician Vvii.
Circumambience (detail), 2019
Bronze Foot in front of a Sphinx, 2021
Tollund Man, 2023
Icarus, 2019
Rorschach Test III, 2019
Rouse, in collaboration with Vvii, 2023Rouse, acrylic gouache and pastel on paper, 22” x 22”, 2023.Rouse illustrates the song of the same title by Vvii. Sonically, Rouse is a nod to goth rock of the early 2000s. With heavy base, spacy keys, and droney, layered vocals, the song starts with a bang and washes away towards its end. The song is about the singer’s experience with ending a relationship due to her ex’s alcoholism. Pictorially, the nude figure is draped in wet fabric, looking at the viewer from below and her mouth open like she is trying to breathe through the soaked veil. She pours a pink liquid from a large gold bowl like she is purging the alcohol that tainted her love. The cave that surrounds her is flowing like the veil that suffocates her and the sun beams unapologetically on her in the otherwise dark cave.
Exquisite Corpse IV, 2020
Angel, 2020Angel is a sketchbook piece made in 2020. The composition of this ink drawing in bisected horizontally into two equal parts. Levitating above the horizon is an almost totally transparent jelly-like body. Its small crown takes the form of a sea angel, for which the piece was named. Its broad body has four thin, twisting tentacles. It holds a symmetrical pose, like a cuttlefish.` On either side, it holds two identical disks, radiating like radio waves. Its winged body remains flightless and upright, balancing on a single dagger. Below the horizon is a bold undulating black brush stroke, suggesting the existence of moving water. It is as if this animalistic structure remains balanced an unmoving, despite the turbulence below and will remain this way indefinitely until it is disturbed or destroyed. This balance is analogous to the pursuit of justice.
I Look So Different, 2020
Mai, 2018
Conjoined, 2019
Juvenile, in collaboration with vvii, 2021
It's More Fun Than It Looks
Justice, 2020Justice is a sketchbook ink piece made in 2020. The composition of this ink drawing in bisected horizontally into two equal parts. Above the horizon sits an insect-like structure. Its crown resembles both quills and antennae. Its body is separated by three segments shaped like an upside-down tear drop, each larger than the one below. On either side, it holds two identical disks, radiating like radio waves. Its winged body remains flightless and upright, balancing on a single dagger. Below the horizon is a bold undulating black brush stroke, suggesting the existence of moving water. It is as if this animalistic structure remains balanced and unmoving, despite the turbulence below and will remain this way indefinitely until it is disturbed or destroyed. This balance is analogous to the pursuit of justice.
Storm, 2020Storm is a sketchbook ink drawing made in 2020. This mercurial drawing is a rendering of the surface of Jupiter, mimicking every detail strictly with thin, black marks. “Storm” refers to Jupiter’s turbulent cyclones that completely cover the planet.
Tree Stump In Washington Square Park, 2020
Be My Eyes, 2024Be My Eyes, acrylic gouache and pastel on gesso board, 8” x 8, 2024.Be My Eyes is a small-scale, mixed media drawing, evoking the feeling of comfort in uncertainty. Within darkness, a horse drinks from a glowing liquid. Her face is illuminated by the glow from where her lips meet the water. Her face is broken up into many parts that combine to make a whole. Rippling blue bands of light paint her face and her eye glows deep yellow.
Study of "Cadmus Slays a Dragon" by Hendrik Goltzius, 2023
La Dame en Bleu (detail), 2018
La Dame en Rouge, 2018La Dame en Rouge, is a five-foot-tall mixed media piece made in 2019. This post-anthropic trans identity is imposing in its contained, fluid motion. The spiraling movement of its long body resembles a Spanish dancer sea slug or two Leopard slugs mating. Its magenta crown blooms from the top like the feathers of a male peacock or like a yellow dandelion. Its magenta and yellow face is iridescent like the wing covers of a beetle. Its noseless facade resembles a vulva, which repeats throughout its form.
Cirque, 2019Cirque is an alternative version of Circumambiance, manipulated in Photoshop. This extremely kaleidoscopic structure is contained tightly in a square composition. The image is in limited color and communicates extreme volume with a black background, devoid of any sense of atmosphere. The subject’s extremely complex anatomy is skeletal and full of cavities and spiky jointed limbs, contrary to the various fleshy, yellow-eyed faces hidden throughout the fictional creature. It is so transparent, it could be made of blown glass. Its anatomy resembles both arthropods and the skeletons of diatoms.
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