2021

BIO

Born in Utah May 4th 1989
Current project locations: Landers California . Monroe Utah
Human Design: Projector . Zodiac: Taurus . Chinese symbol: Snake

I am an artist, & designer. I enjoy beautifying my surroundings, and discussing ways to change the world thru art and expression. I believe that we are in the beginning stages of an artist revolution that will transform the world we live in.

My Partner Mieka & I have been blessed with a beautiful baby daughter. This has put everything into a whole new perspective in the most wondrous & powerful way. I live in awe of every single day.

MANIESTO

Authenticity, Equality, Ecology
These three words are the guiding compass of everything I do. And if I slip, I expect to be put in check. For we must take every step intentionally toward a level playing field of equality, and regenerative harmony with nature. Because there is no other option. To do any less than those three words ends in dire consequences. This world is our canvas and while we’re here lets make it beautiful.

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THE WORK

I explore wonder, curiosity, function, science, historical reverence, and storytelling in my work. There are no confines of medium, or material. Location informs the work, often times creating it.

An ode to the human experience. Often teetering a line between art, mythology, & spiritual ritual. I constantly traverse what it is to live, be, breathe, see, hear & think.

My paintings & line work are a meditation of simplicity.
My assemblage works are my need to find order in Chaos.
My installations create environments for human connection, always with larger informed narratives that sometimes create the piece, and other times take years to discover.

THE PHILOSOPHY

I have a fundamental belief that all Ideas are wanting to be birthed into this universe beyond our control. Each "Idea" is merely looking for a host to plant its seed and become tangible reality. Therefore I am grateful to be a vessel of creative expression, and I release any notion that these ideas are mine, and mine alone. they come from a deeper well that we all pull from. This metaphor can be seen in many ways. I like a more playfully primal version where we are actually prey to the idea as stated in this poem:

"a writer knows its words like a zebra knows its stripes...
and in the brush, ideas lie... awaiting time to STRIKE"

WHATS NEXT

The most exciting part for me is passing on knowledge to the next generation.
In May of 2021 I will be graduating from the Institute of Intent. This has been my own self taught schooling over the past 5 years with studies in:
Art History, Science, Math, Architecture, Engineering, Human Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, & Astrology.
My degree will be a Masters in Contemporary Folk Art, and I will be producing my Thesis Project in Summer 2021 that will be peer reviewed by many in the field of the arts. It will be in the form of a book outlining all that I have learned these past years, and what comes next.
This will make me the first official Graduate from the Institute of Intent, and we will then begin courses and open enrollment starting fall 2021 in the form of weekend classes, week long intensives, and guidelines for individual self taught degrees.

As you go about your day today I will leave you with this:

"Today is an adventure. Each page is choose your own.
Will it be an action novel will you stay at home?
Will you ride on wonders wings to distant lands unknown?
Will you dance and laugh and sing, or will you go alone?

Will you wander past the path where pavement starts to end...
Or share a cup of tea with a stranger or a friend?
The choice is up to you, which journey do you see?
I've faith in yee' adventerer, that you'll choose wizeley."

Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

Contact me regarding projects, collaboration, investment opportunities, or just to say hi.

bio : written 2019

Born in Utah May 4th 1989
Currently living between Landers California & Monroe Utah.

I am an artist, & designer. I enjoy making things, and discussing ways to change the world thru art and expression. I believe that we are in the beginning stages of an artist revolution that will transform the world we live in.

As of March 13 2019 My Partner Mieka & I have been blessed with a beautiful baby daughter. This has put everything I thought i knew into a whole new perspective in the most wondrous, joyful, powerful way. She is a heart warming gift that I am in awe of every single day.

maniesto

I will always strive to create wonder, awe, curiosity, function, science, historical reverence, and storytelling into my work. There are no confines of medium, or material. Location will always inform the work, often times creating it.

My entire body of work boils down to an ode to the human experience. what it is to live, be, breathe, see, hear & think. Often teetering a line between art, mythology, & spiritual ritual.
My paintings & line work are a meditation of simplicity. My assemblage works are my need to find order in Chaos. My installations create environments for human connection, always with larger informed narratives that sometimes create the piece, and other times take years to discover.

I play with a fundamental belief of the work, the art, the creation, wanting to be birthed into this universe beyond our control. Each "Idea" is merely looking for a host to plant its seed and become form, sweet fertile form. I have a poem that explains this concept:

"a writer knows its words like a zebra knows its stripes...
and in the brush, ideas lie... awaiting time to STRIKE"

Its a playful concept that as creatives we are merely prey to our "ideas" its not our choice to execute these objectives it is by force of our own desires to create greatness that we become work horses of the aether. putting in our blood, sweat, money, and time to birth ideas into reality.

Then there is that Gruesome beast called self doubt, which we all know so well. And when it creeps up your spine and overflows into your gut, have the courage to push thru its damp clingy fog, and into the unknown. For there are beautiful vistas beyond awaiting your arrival. With each peak of success you summit the realization becomes stronger than the climb before that the fog lies in the valleys we all must cross. but you cannot have Hi’s without Lo’s.

As you go about your day today I will leave you with this:

Thank you for reading. have a wonderful day.