My Work
Artist’s Statement: CalArts
Edit - this needs work, new one coming next week
The topics I explore in my work evolve from the interaction between humans and their physical and mental landscapes. I draw inspiration from the idea that perception is inescapable: there is no pure experience. Everything we observe, we interpret through our own unique filter of personal [...]
All The Slides, All Lined Up (v2.0)
Thanks again for the helpful comments. I’m trying to get this stitched up a little more before National Portfolio Day on Sunday. (A CalArts representative is going to be at SAIC, an excellent opportunity for a trial run) With some revisions to the photos and the order of viewing, I hope this starts to look [...]
All the Slides, All Lined Up
It’s been a long few months. I needed roughly 10 minutes of animation, and a slide carousel containing personal art that suggested motion or animation in some way. Given that my portfolio was so scattered before and I wasn’t particularly proud of any of my animated works, I had to re-do or at least rethink [...]
Experimentations with Illustrator Brushes
This week has yielded an odd convergence of doomed creative endeavors. Monday there was rain. I was having a hard time thinking and was cold and felt still kind of off due to my weekend spent with three long haired cats (the only thing I know I’m allergic to) so I decided to just draw [...]
Dare not speak it’s name
Today is a perfect example of October, a chill even rain and still, steel gray sky. The colors in the trees are just starting to rust the edges of the green. Last night a large orange moon hung in the writhing and wispy clouds that would herald this morning’s soaking.
I sat on the hood of [...]
36 Haunted IV - In Sleep (Dreams of Home)
Here it is, my latest portfolio animation and Ghosts submission. Sorry about the poor youtube quality on all of these, they were rendered higher, but for some reason I can’t get the “watchi in high quality” button to show up in youtube. One more thing to figure out until a find a better way to [...]
Starting 36 Haunted IV - In Sleep (Dreams of Home)
Hi Everyone! Getting a bit of a late start today. It was cold this morning and even the thought of bad (but warm) coffee couldn’t make me unwind myself from my cocoon. But now, I’m here (wound up in yet another pile of blankets) and happily setting to work. I’ve been working on another [...]
25 Haunted III - Urban Wasteland
This video is a sound visualization for 25 Ghosts III and a submission for the Ghosts Film Festival. The song itself has sparse distinct melodic elements layered over a dense drone of background static, bells, and electronic noise. My challenge in creating a visualization piece was isolating the way the separate elements add to the [...]
On Purpose. Why I am what I am now.
Yes, I meant that as a double meaning. I know have at least some vague idea of what I want to accomplish with my life. It has taken some pretty good beating myself up to get here, but I think I might be on to something. It seems that for most of the last decade, [...]
On Waveforms
I’m working on a new Ghosts video. I’m excited, its been awhile since I’ve come up with an acheivable idea for one. 25 Ghosts III entered my to-do list after the concert. It takes on a whole new interest performed live in front of (and behind, incidentally) the Stealth screens. When I started the video, [...]
