Digital Art
Mashups are digital artworks that combine multiple images together using layer blending features in photo editing software. Stylistically, they're about exploring boundaries between painting and photography, realism and abstraction, and finding beauty in decay.
From the series Shock Values. See more in the Mashup galleries.
Painting & Drawing
My roots are in "analog" art, and there is still nothing quite like working with traditional media. My current abstract works have a strong overlap with my mashups in terms of aesthetics, but success lies more directly in the expressiveness of colors, shapes, and textural effects.
STAX series, acrylic on paper, 9" x 12", 2025. See more here.
Photography
Interest in single-image photography dates back to my college years, manually developing film in a physical darkroom. With modern tools, I now look forward to post-processing images in a digital darkroom. In addition to taking photos of source imagery to use in my mashups, I also enjoy connecting with nature across ever-changing lighting and weather conditions.
Taken in Urbana IL in January 2025. See more in the Landscapes galleries.
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“We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.”
- Arthur Dove