The New Year

Good to be back. Happy New Year. After a long hiatus due to general busyness and laziness, I'm finally back online! Had some scanner trouble as well, which didn't help things.

Lots going on in my world. First of all, aside from searching for work, I've been busy with a band I formed together with my friend Jim. We both share incredibly similar musical tastes, and things have been progressing smoothly for the past two months. We're sort of an amalgam of Krautrock-inspired psych, minimalist boogie, and eastern-flavored drone/experimental. Think Hawkwind meets High Rise over a lunch of Vindaloo curry and samosas. No band name as of yet but one is in the works. We should be playing soon too, after we are able to get a full time bassist. Power trio dreams!

Next in line is a new series of paintings I will be working on and then shopping around at local coffee shops, bars, and galleries. Anyone interested in setting up a show at their particular gallery, or if you're a fellow artist looking to organize a group show please e-mail me. The title of the series will be Total Life. The work deals with ideas of ritual magick, early human semiotics & symbols, minimalism, nature, and tone. I've included some early sketches and studies above.

That's about it for news as of now, if anyone has any leads on potential jobs, please let me know. Things are more than bleak in that area right now.

Down Time

"Gram Parsons"-ink

"Yoshimi"-ink

"Death Heads"-watercolor, pen and ink

On Getting My Life Together Blues

Hello all. After a long hiatus on the blogging front, I'm back with some new sketches. It's been terribly hectic around these parts with moving, working and stressing. Everything has gelled into a little creative ball and I've been working on new music for the first time in months. Also, my new apartment has allowed me the ability to start creating new paintings! Finally, more large scale work is to come! Enjoy the new batch of Moleskine works for now! Peace.


"Ginsberg"-ink pen

"Ayahuasca"-ink pen

"Untitled"-watercolor

"Untitled"-watercolor

"First Salvia Divinorum Experience"-ink pen

Gary Higgins: Millenium Park 6-23-08

The long-lost psych-folk singer/songwriter Gary Higgins made a rare concert appearance at Millenium Park this past Monday, for free nonetheless! It was a mesmerizing performance of old classics and new gems. I was so happy to see one of my favorite musicians performing songs from one of my favorite albums of all time! I got some photos that, unfortunately, don't really capture the beauty of the monumental event. Read Gary's story here on the Chicago Reader site. Be sure to check out/pick up "Red Hash", his 1973 cult favorite album, recently reissued on Drag City.

Keiji Haino

Portrait of the black god of Japanese noise. India Ink wash. Been listening to way too much mind-melting stuff by this fella lately.

Old Growth SKetches

A series of small sketches I did last year. I just came upon these again and kinda liked 'em

"Anthem of the Sun"

An image of my newest work entitled "Anthem of the Sun". Commissioned for Todd & Margaret Woodward. Mixed media diptych on two stretched canvases. Each panel approx. 30"x40". Completed May 2008.

A very "freeing" experience to delve into the completely abstract realm (somewhere I generally dare not tread). Using the array of colors, expressive strokes, and angular/organic shapes was a real treat for my generally uptight and restrained method of painting. A good experiment!