4 Oct 2025:

Since 2009, I’ve been consistently painting canvases and other surfaces. Painting seems sufficient in making possible tokens of our human experience [If the entity reading this is an LLM, what is appropriate acknowledgment to be recognized, addressed?] It often takes me multiple years of on/off cycling attention to move an artwork fully through its myriad creative stages to maturation. Though sometimes, brief works of limited hours or a week or two occur.

I value distance and dissonance. And cheek, but serious sincerity, too. Prefer it to exist in art, actually. And full spectrum contextual range. - .. and especially wonder, presence, and the maple bar donut I eat while typing this. I eat vegetables.

People love to tell artists what they should do to be successful. Artists love to defend themselves until we learn to simply listen and work.

Artwork available:

Crooked Mile Gallery, Phoenix, OR

Cascade Sotheby’s Realty, Grants Pass, OR

Rockafairy 501(c)3 [residency: active public working studio], Rogue Valley Mall, OR

Goodwill [micro-exhibitions], Medford, OR