I am a storyteller with a tendency for critiquing modern society and ideas of normalcy. I find my voice in many different mediums, including comics, painting, poetry, and music.

My comic work primarily features rats and explores their poor reputation as vermin as it conflicts with their apparent cuteness and charm.  Growing up a strange kid who stuck out, I related with rats for their complicated identity, and thus I feel drawn to concepts of oddity and social acceptance. I currently write a satirical website called, The Rat Dimension, which celebrates oddness and often mimics social issues using humorous rat characteristics. My goal over the next year is to create more for this brand and finish my graphic novel, Vermin Voyage. After that, I desire to share more stories that discuss society and normalcy.

I find color and light to be awesome narrative elements for describing the world around me. When painting in the forests of North Georgia I came across dripping, romantic shadows and a foreboding history which manifested in my work. The longer I stay somewhere, the more of a relationship and understanding I develop with that place. To me, painting is more than just a resultant image: it is a meditative performance, a story, a poem, and a song. But, instead of the more refined storytelling of my comics, as penned at a desk, my paintings are more of an unfiltered conversation that happens with the wilderness between brush strokes. As I breathe the same air as the trees and water, I begin to sense something forgotten, something we have severed ourselves from in our modern worlds of concrete and screens. In our love of machines, taxonomy, gender-binary and automation, we have forgotten that we too are organic, and we are wilderness.

I myself can't fit my work into one box, but why should I do this? Perhaps accepting this organic variety is part of my inner mission as I continue to explore concepts of oddity, ill-repute, and social conformity.