Paintings often evolve from loose ideas into channeled visuals. I rarely end up with what I started out to accomplish. At the heart of each, I try and hold a central emotion or sensation, infusing the message to remember into the piece with 'glyphs', which materialize intuitively. Color is perhaps the biggest ingredient when I paint.
Posters are one of my favorite things to do. When I was young, we had posters to echo our inner desires, obsessions, and crushes. In the summer of 2025, I was granted a peddler's license from the town of Woodstock, VT (where I lived at the time) to busk on the street making posters with passersby, and these are some of the works that came out of it.
Creating a poster or a painting, for me, is about absorbing the energy of a time, space, or person and translating it into color. I like to use acrylics, rattle can, paint markers, and random other things to create meaningful pieces which are almost always centered around value struggles (from geopolitical to trauma-based). I tend to find and inspiration in anyone flipping the bird to convention, whether it be punk rock or graffiti. Japanese brush painting (sumi-e) is also an influence. Nearly all of the work below is for sale, and 100% of what you pay is attributed to my life at JOY FARM. I appreciate your support.