I work with objects from the past, from pop culture to family photos, and fragment this imagery, similar to the fragmentation of memory. I erase the identities in family photos. I reproduce pieces of the past in markers, paint and a printmaking process, in a balance of imprecision while attempting to maintain a level of control, similar to the way memory attempts to reproduce events in an inherently imperfect way. Sometimes I pixelate these images, similar to the simplified way the past exists in memory, as well as recognizing the digital nature of contemporary life. My two fixations are memory and change. These memories come from my lifetime, beginning in the mid 70s. The 80s were my elementary and middle school years. Then the high school and college years of the 90s. The 00s I began being an adult and artist out there on my own. The 10s are a balance of being a productive artist while also being a husband and parent. Bright colors. Max Headroom. Blade Runner. The Goonies. R.E.M. Boards of Canada. Unsolved Mysteries. The NES and early phases of digital technology. The early days of the internet. Huge events like 9-11, the Challenger explosion & the 2021 Capital Insurrection. Using memory and change as my main themes, I'm mostly concerned with mortality. Not the fear of death, but the fact that we know our time is limited. It makes us do a variety of things. Some of us try to hold onto and perhaps collect the past. Some come up with stories and explanations that deal with these circumstances, creating ideologies and belief systems. Some of us use this past to make paintings and drawings that, like landscape paintings or portraits of the past, simply document and attempt to understand the many pieces of what we are.

I currently work out of my warehouse studio in Aiken, SC. My daughter Leona was born in 2015 and my wife Amanda is the one and only THORN & FINCH.