Using ink, spray-paint, puppets, and the written word, I constellate a narrative depicting life in  natural and industrial surroundings; how industrial progress impacts ecosystems, where the impact of progress intersects with nature and spirituality; I tell stories about devotion, discomfort, sexuality, fear, and love; about death, memory, immortality through narrative, and the experience of loss.

In conjunction with my personal art practice and career, I’ve developed event organizing skills through my past work as co-founder of Hydra Art Collective, by organizing and hosting various arts events such as figure drawing sessions, writing workshops, printmaking workshops, and puppet building workshops; as well as organizing and managing art shows, craft markets, and zine production. I’m experienced in community building through this work, and have developed unique interpersonal skills that help me navigate communication with others with a sense of empathy and understanding of how each individual’s experience impacts the community as a whole.

On a quarterly schedule, I produce, design, and edit a zine with varying degrees of collaboration with other artists. This publication is called Apocrypha Quarterly, and is described as follows:

A magazine sits next to the toilet at the bottom of your unconscious mind. In the waiting room of the dentist office unfortunately located in the slums of your amygdala. Your lost serotonin checks into a motel somewhere in your brain’s hopeless tangles. Sitting hunched on the stained mattress, it checks the side-table-drawer, looking for a bible. All it finds is a dog eared copy of Apocrypha Quarterly.

Apocrypha Quarterly is a pulpy tabloid that's content blurs fact and fiction, depicting the secret, unknown, esoteric, sleazy and shocking lives and struggles of local mainers. Articles feature reports on supernatural discoveries, lurid tales, interviews with locals, advertisements including classifieds and more. 

“Apocrypha: Biblical writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture. While some might be doubtful of authorship or authenticity, in Christianity, the word apocryphal was first applied to writings which were to be read privately rather than in the public context of church services. Well after the protestant reformation the word apocrypha was used by some ecclesiastics to mean ‘false’, ‘spurious’, ‘bad’, or ‘heretical’.”

“The word apocryphal was first applied to writings which were kept secret because they were vehicles of esoteric knowledge considered too profound or sacred to be disclosed to anyone other than the initiated.”

We take the things that are meant to be kept quiet or private and release them, callously and indignantly, on a quarterly schedule. There may be questions of authenticity, but there may also be seldom revealed truths. Sometimes you can reveal the truth with a lie. Sometimes the truth is more accurately depicted through the lense of folkloric storytelling, or through the exaggerated lense of science fiction.