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I was born on Grey Cup Day, in the town of Cornwall, the same year that Thorazine was introduced. Physically, I am isomorphic-shaped with brown hair, blue eyes, bad teeth, and hair on my shoulders like epaulettes. I am fairly egalitarian. I value both black and red licorice. I currently reside in Seattle, spliced to my wife, Molly.

I am not a complete Primitive. I am largely self-taught, but I do have smatterings of education in photography and design. I feel fortunate to have had a career that spanned 3 distinct and separate technologies; Darkroom & Film photography to Digital Imaging (Photoshop) to Narrow AI morphing tools.

During the beginning of my artistic career, I tried to capture traditional beauty, whatever that may mean. But I found the work lacking. I returned to the deeper parts of the psyche, a more natural flow. Now, I aspire to create work that has a similar intellectual and emotional content as a dream, an afterlife waiting room, or stations of existence where the burdens of life are explained by allegory and dramatization.

Notable works

Cut Yourself on Angel Hair and Baby’s Breath (Magazine Stranger Cover)

Boy with Pearl Earring (Silagin Collection)

Turnersicle (Purdue University)

Adam and Eve

Influences

Joel-Peter Witkin, John Waters, David Lynch, Robert Williams and the Juxtapoz movement, Salvador Dali and traditional surrealism.