Poetry as a teenager is filled with angst and unrequited emotions and this is also where I began as I scratched out reason for my disjointed emotions and feeling of place in society. When you are young, every song is an anthem, every lyric a revelation but when you are some type of crust punk those songs and lyrics are more, they are your hymns and your scripture. While I never strayed far from the anarchist ideology of my youth, one of the pivotal points of my life has been in understanding my spiritual life and relationship to God. This contrast between salvation and institution, community and isolation, and even between inspiration & media consumption are continually at the forefront of my writing and visual art.
In the early stages of my life I was very fascinated by visual art but it was a secondary form of communication. This is the stage where I drew most of the pen sketches that fill up my sketchbook gallery. Now, at this point in my life, visual art is neither primary nor secondary but is essential to the forms by which I explore what it means to be alive.
I hope you see the quality of beauty that I find within the work itself. The expression of emotion and searching for meaning as I seek to unify my own forms of incoherence.