“I’ve been called a Visionary Landscape painter, a Climate Change artist, a Ruin-Porn painter, a Post-Apocalyptic Artist, a Dystopian Storyteller, a Sci-Fi illustrator and a ‘Speculative Fiction Author.’ All of those titles are true, but none them get at what drives the emotion of the process for me. 

There is a through-line between all of the work I’ve made. It’s been about trying to picture spaces that visualize the distance between the world that exists out there around us, the mix of what was presented to us and what we built on top of it or scraped away, and the world inside of us… the one programmed deep into our fish brains and our monkey brains… the one we can’t find anymore.

World-Building requires A LOT of analytical, obsessive logic, but ultimately it is an emotional practice for me.  It comes from the desire to externalize an interiority: one of pain, joy, anxiety, loss, righteousness and uncertainty. Love and Anger.  Self-loathing and self-adoration.  The paintings are pictures of those inner places made visible as much as they are a reference to the world outside of me.

They are my way of non-verbally embedding consciousness and narrative into matter in hopes that they can become empathy generators and allow others to find some familiar terrain to expand their interiors into.”