As a young boy, I grew up surrounded by a vast, forested naturescape in rural western Kentucky. I spent countless afternoons, weekends, and entire summers immersed in fishing, hunting, and hiking through the dense woods alongside my ever-loyal canine companion. It was during these formative years that I developed a profound and lifelong fascination with nature—its remarkable abundance, intricate relationships, and incredible variety. This deep interest in Earth’s complex biodiversity, coupled with a passion for theoretical physics and a love of the science fiction genre, inspired me to envision a long-extinct, ancient world shaped by the familiar forms of nature we recognize today, but transforming them into an environment utterly unsuitable for organic life as we understand it. I seek to challenge viewers’ interpretations of organic life and its functioning parts—where internal organs become towering mountains on the landscape, and rivers of mercury flow through a vast system of veins and arteries. This world embodies both beauty and grotesqueness, intertwining elements that are simultaneously sexual and asexual, provoking reflection on the boundaries between life, form, and environment.

“Art takes nature as its model.” ~ Aristotle

Graphite on paper and gessoed wood panel