My work examines how independent music culture permeates identity and interpersonal interactions. I am informed by direct participation in the local culture that I am studying, rather than viewing it as an observer. Subjects I am focused on include performers and crowd members as individuals characterized by the experience of being active artists or social conductors, as well as objects that act as vehicles for these interactions, such as musical instruments, locations such as venues or factories that provide space for these interactions to occur, and media storage units and transmission devices such as mono transcoders for independent radios and cassettes produced with a “do it yourself” or D.I.Y. ethos. Focusing on independent and D.I.Y. approaches to music promote a bottom up culture of support and willful choosing of identity, as opposed to a bottom down approach of consumerism and manufactured identity created through marketing.
"Punk Advertising"
"13agh3ad Collage 2"
"13agh3ad Collage 1"
"13agh3ad", 3'x4', micron pen, faber-castell, inkwash, and clay dust on paper, 2020.
"Mothlight Collage 2", 22"x22", original digital photography, masking tape, printmaking paper, and dirty bootprints, 2020.
"Radio Room Collage", roughly 18"x18", original digital photography printed on 12pt gloss, masking tape, 2020.
Untitled collage of photos from the 2/8/20 Sane Voids show at The Radio Room in Greenville, SC, 22"x22", original digital photography printed on 12pt gloss, painter's tape, 2020. Gifted to the Sane Voids Estate.
"Mothlight Collage 1", 31.25"x11", original digital photography printed on 12pt gloss, masking tape, 2020.
"Shape of the Crowd 3", micron pen, faber-castell, inkwash, and clay dust on printmaking paper, 2020.
"Microphone", 13"x13", micron pen, inkwash, clay dust, and graphite on printmaking paper, 2020.
"Violin", 22"x22", micron pen and graphite on printmaking paper, 2019.
"Mellotron Moog", 22"x22", micron pen, faber-castell, and graphite on printmaking paper, 2019.
"Gourd Lute", 22"x22", micron pen and graphite on paper, 2019.
"Grandmother Moog", 14"x14", micron pen on printmaking paper, 2019.
"Moog Factory pts. 1-9", 9 cold press prints, 9"x9" each, of original digital photography drawn over in micron pen and faber-castell, 2019. Sold.
"Shape of the Crowd 2", 18"x18", micron pen and faber-castell on paper, 2019.
"Shape of the Crowd 1", 13"x13", micron pen and faber-castell marker on printmaking paper, 2019.