Portfolio: 2022 to present

Ballpoint pen illustrations like these are available by commission!

An illustration of the size and detail shown above starts at $30 for monochrome and $40 for multi-color.
A more detailed image like Conversion on the Way to Damascus (in red ink, above) would be higher priced, at $45 for monochrome.
These prices are for small scale, 2 to 5 inch or 5 to 15 centimeter illustrations.
For more information or to request a commission, contact me here or through the contact page in the menu.

Prints of any works shown below are also available upon request.

All Hail the Machine

For a class assignment on “western tradition.”
Stylistic inspiration: Caravaggio, tenebrism light as symbol of God; the facial features are compiled from other Baroque religious artworks.

Majority of society's relationship with God/religion changing; other non-traditional figures/concepts taking its place. Some are reverent towards technological power in a way that approaches divine worship, especially when it comes to AI.

Artificial General intelligence (which is the theoretical AI which is non-specialized) is referred to as all-knowing, even potentially all-powerful, and the digital world it-and we- inhabit is infinitely vast, immediate, intangible. The dichotomy between “science” and “religion” is collapsed and turned on its head; God ruled the past, and the computer will rule the future.

Who’s afraid of borders?

Borders delineate category; nation/nationalized identity, sex/sexual identity: national borders exemplify this in the legal scrutiny and designation of sexed bodies, with non-conforming, atypical sexed and gendered bodies being subjected to interrogation and humiliation.
“Body as landscape.”

Pareidolia Series

Surrealism; abstraction; body/perception/recognition. These are automatic shapes–doodled, then painted. I took inspiration from surrealist movement; allowing “unconscious” to direct mark making. The act of viewing has a similar unconscious effect: pareidolia (the creation of meaning/patterns from perceptual information where there is none). Playing with perceptual effects, the mental creation of the body through viewing it, the freedom of ambiguity.

Figure/Ground Diptych

Exploring different modes of portraying a nude, playing with the figure/ground relationship.
For the 2nd, I selected the reference (from a stock figure reference site) because it reminded me of Christina’s World and posture had an interesting emotive quality.

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