I am an illustrator from the rural Illinois countryside of the Saint Louis Metropolitan Region. I have a background studying traditional drawing and painting methods, and I began incorporating digital imaging techniques into my creative process while earning my MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. Since graduate school, I have worked various jobs in printing, imaging, document preparation, and have taught university art courses in drawing, visual organization, digital media, and art history. While continuing to share my work with an expanding audience of like-minded fans of science fiction and fantasy, I have also worked collaboratively on published artworks for comics, book covers, short films, and role-playing adventure games.
My interdisciplinary practice thrives at the ontological intersection of Art and Literature, and the research I do looks at how visual storytelling systems use metaphors and abstract design principles to communicate more clearly to a target audience. Because the fluency of visual literacy varies widely in an increasingly isolated and mediated society, I am particularly interested in how the language of "the uncanny” is adapted across media from different visual cultures. The melancholic characters and strange environments depicted in many of my pictures are subliminally shaped by the remote life experiences and wild imagination shared by the wonderful spirit of my communities.
Uploading intertextual idylls through a neural network of pixelated portals, my Retro-Romantic impression of the world imagines a flickering hologram of humanity that, even though increasingly alienated and displaced, might suggest a more equitably accessible future for those who choose to continue chasing their dreams down the rabbit hole.
In my free time, I enjoy reading, collecting physical media, and sharing my passion of drawing and visual culture with others.
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