America

This series started as an annual event. I decided one 4th of July that I needed to express my feelings of patriotism, and created the first in the America series. The next year I began to examine my feelings more closely, and the images from there out began to take a radical turn. I felt it important to explore the disparity between the perception of the holiday - and in turn, the country - and the reality of the politics of today.
 
Eventually, I started getting more ideas than I wanted to wait until the next 4th of July to do, and decided to change it from an annual event, to a whenever I felt like it event. After all, this is America, and I'm free to do whatever the Hell I want, right?

Animals

This may be seen as hypocritical, since I in no way purport to be "serving" the cause to prevent animal cruelty (I regularly eat at horrible fast food restaurants... although I do feel guilty whenever I'm reminded of where the stuff comes from). But I say fie to that. Just because I don't practice what I preach - well, I'm not actually preaching anything, but you see what I'm saying - doesn't mean that someone else won't be affected by my work. This work basically takes the spirit of Heather Deaton's project "The Real Mother Goose", about the cruelty inflicted onto animals when used for mass production food source, and continues it with an addition of my own interests... medieval torture. It's not wholly what I started out to accomplish, and has been watered down a bit, but that's only because it just felt really comical, not to mention near impossible to pull off, showing a cow with nipple clamps.

Mab and Dori

This idea really started when my wife purchased these stuffed toys for some friends' kids. She thought they were so cute that she and her mother just had to write a story in accompaniment. The idea further developed into putting together a little book, with pitures to go along with it.
 Somehow, I was volunteered to illustrate the story. That's just how it works around here sometimes.

Feelings

I've been told for some time that I'm emotionally "cut off". So one day I decided to try and get in touch with my emotions by working on an art series. As with any art piece, I think some are much more successful than others, but that also has something to do with how well a particular emotion lends itself to interpretation and portrayal.