Urban
Sediments
In Urban Sediments, I construct layered collages on mixed media grounds that evoke the weathered surfaces of the city. Working from personal photographs of urban textures collected across multiple cities over time, I tear, abrade, and stain each image so that fragments appear accumulated, eroded, and in flux. This process mirrors the physical and temporal layering of the built environment, where traces of use, neglect, repair, and disappearance continually reshape the urban surface. By extracting and reframing overlooked details from the everyday city, the work considers how place and memory are constructed, obscured, and worn away, revealing the quiet sedimentary beauty and natural abstraction embedded in what is typically ignored.
Cultural
Sediments
In Cultural Sediments, I construct layered collages on painted grounds that evoke the weathered surfaces of urban walls. Working with repurposed vintage gay adult magazine imagery, I tear, abrade, and stain each element so that figures emerge in states of partial erosion—marked by time, environment, and cycles of removal. This process mirrors the accumulation and decay of cultural memory, tracing shifting ideals of masculinity within the gay community and the persistent nostalgia attached to earlier archetypes of the idealized male body. By translating once-private images of desire into surfaces that recall public urban remnants, the work considers how identity, beauty, and history are continually constructed, circulated, and worn away.
Guerrilla
Pop Art
This series (originally called Guerrilla Blocks) is the loose, playful counterpart to the paintings I'm better known for — born out of a creative slump during the Covid era. Drawing on my background as a graphic designer, each piece begins as a digital collage of found and personal imagery — manipulated, printed, and wheat-pasted onto a repurposed surface to mimic the look of street art. The results are fun, affordable, one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate pop culture, nostalgia, gay iconography, and just plain weirdness. Over 300 blocks have been created so far, sold mostly through a local boutique shop in Louisville, KY.