Howdy folks!

Here’s some work I’ve been developing over the past couple of months. It’s been rather liberating diving into these works on canvas. There larger scale, relative to my  illustration work, made a refreshing demand on my body to be more physical. The following pieces were done for my “Madness All the Time” series. These works are the product of nonsense integrating with reason and consequently defecating a sloppy narrative on canvas material. After all narrative is essentially just that, a pathetic exhaust of one’s ideas. The history of man is subjective; resting in the realms of opinion based on fleeting events. Therefore, to assert that I can tell a story about history accurately I must begin by submitting to the possibility that purposefully lying is just as informed and indeed valid as had I been trying to tell it truthfully.

Being aware of my inability to tell a story about historical truths truthfully has led me to the layering of narratives in these pieces. At times it is an erasure of one event in favor of another. Even though both events may have occurred I give myself the authority to stamp out whatever I like. At other points it’s to acknowledge my insecurity with the truth and submit to the insubordination of a subjective history. The result of which is symbolical imagery scattered about with tacit implications but no discernable direction, laden with doubt in some moments and shallow confidence in others.

Bon Appetit!

This was the first piece I did for the series, it’s called “I like Bunnies II”

“War All the Time”

The Fecundity of Criticism I and II