Frequently Asked Questions
How is the site organized?
Not as a scrollable archive. My installations are built to be experienced. People have stood inside them and felt something shift before they knew why. My other work asks the opposite of scale: close and small, more like peering through a window into another world rather than stepping back to take in a piece on a wall. This site holds both. It’s built by feeling, not chronology or medium. Portals instead of one long grid. The browse page lets you explore by medium, theme, or status directly.
What do Unwinding, Tension, and Binding mean?
I call these portals. They offer three ways into the work through feeling instead of category. Unwinding holds raw material and work still in process. Tension holds what hasn’t resolved, built around what pulls against itself. Binding holds work made for gathering people together. IIlustration & Design sits apart from all three – the client-facing side of the practice.
Why does illustration and design sit next to fine art?
Over the years I’ve worked with small businesses and individual clients as well as larger organizations: museums, energy companies, universities. I enjoy this work on its own terms. It’s a different kind of problem-solving, color, composition, and someone else’s goals all have to line up. Getting that right is satisfying in a way that’s distinct from studio work. Same artistic practice, different demands.
Why so many different mediums?
Curiosity and learning are a huge part of why I love making art. Each medium has its own properties and logic, and I want to see how far I can take an idea with what that medium offers. Sometimes two mediums combine well together. Sometimes one leads me into another and ends up informing an entirely new body of work. Being cornered into a single medium has always felt limiting.
Why is there less new work starting around 2020?
Studio work carried on in different shapes for a few years, slowed further by COVID. Between 2019 and 2021 I worked for a design-build firm that engineered tensile structures. I started on the floor, welding triangle sections for the US Pavilion shade structure in Spokane, and later brought conceptual illustration and modeling into the firm’s projects. I also took on civic roles that don’t usually come with studio life: Vice Chair of the Oregon City Arts Commission, and a seat on the Travel Oregon City marketing board, plus training as a therapeutic arts facilitator. All of it was still art-making. This site is the first place in a while that belongs entirely to me, and I’m glad to have somewhere to start sharing studio work again.
Do you take commissions, or is work available for purchase?
Yes to both. I take commissions and have original work available for purchase, please inquire directly.
Can I license or reprint your work?
Yes and it’s happened a number of times. Please contact me with what you have in mind. If you share work online, please credit it.