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My current body of work centers on the idea of roots or being uprooted and its relationship to the individual characters, human or animal. The situations that arise in the work are pulled from a remembered bank of larger narratives and are expressed through hints, only to give the viewer a glimpse of the chimerical. Through bodily gestures and facial expressions, of characters those chances, struggles and releases can be seen. Some of the characters are self-portraits while others are taken from various accounts that represent thoughts, words and other constant visuals.

My foundation of color and line are influenced by the work done in a studio called Termite Terrace, by artists like Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. Through that foundation of color and line, hybrid anthropomorphic characters are constructed to speak of my own roots and their relationship to the world.

These roots are horrifying, constricting and constant
These roots are invisible, invincible and real
These roots are ragged and raging
These roots give life
They can be uprooted and transplanted
Without second thoughts as to how they will react
How they will be treated

Treat these roots as if they are your own
Care for them
Despise them
Revive them

For these roots belong
Belong in your ground, in my ground
To the ancestors and the future
These roots know, no time
They will hear and see more than we ever could imagine
But be careful not to turn your back on these roots
These roots sustain your life

High and Low Co-existing

2007
Acrylic, Collage, Red Diamond Ice Tea Cap on Panel

The Apple

2007
Acrylic on Canvas

Intentions

2006
Acrylic, Collage on Panel

Say Deer

2007
Acrylic on canvas
2ft. x 2ft.

Carnival

2007
Mixed Media on Paper
17 1/2in.x14in.

Not Ferguson

2006
Acrylic and Collage on Panel
17 1/2in.x14in.

Stealing Derotter

2007
Acrylic on Canvas
2ft. x 2ft.

Landscape Bondage

2007
Acrylic on Canvas
2ft. x 2ft.

Contact

2004
Pastel on Arches Paper
22x30

Alone

2004
Pastel on Arches Paper
22x30

Where Did That Come From

2004
Pastel on Arches Paper
22x30

Back

2004
Pastel on Arches Paper
22x30

Landscape

2004
Pastel on Arches Paper
22x30

Self Manipulation

2008
Giclee
24x24

Transcendental Root 1 (Grass)

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
2 1/2 ft x 3 1/4ft

Tar Tanning Dream

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
3 1/2ft x 5 1/2ft

Transcendental Root 2 (Bomb Pop)

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
4 ft x 3 1/2ft

Uprooting Ties of a Confederated Creature (Uncomfortable)

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
3 1/2ft x 2 1/2ft

Untitled

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
19in x 22in

AbKnob

2008
Acrylic on Canvas
19in x 22in