Alex Herzog collaboration
2018Watercolor and tape on yupo
5 inches x 7 inches
Refridgerator magnet poetry courtesy of Alex Herzog.
Seasick Steve
2019Watercolor, micron, and tape on yupo
11 inches by 14 inches
“I paid $25.00 for this guitar from Sherman Cooper Como, Mississippi”
Saudade
2017Alternatively processed 35mm, collected photographs of the artist’s mother, and various textures from objects within the artist’s home.
Saudade is a Portuguese word: it is a feeling of longing, melancholy, desire, and nostalgia. It describes a deep emotional state; a yearning for a happiness that has passed, or perhaps never even existed. It carries with it a touch of melancholy, yet in that wistfulness there is love as well. One thing is certain: the object or person of that saudade does not inhabit the present space or time.
My work began as a mechanism to cope with my mother’s chronic progressive disease, Multiple Sclerosis. I obsessively created with her image embedded as the subject; questioning how one could portray “the human condition.”
My work began as a mechanism to cope with my mother’s chronic progressive disease, Multiple Sclerosis. I obsessively created with her image embedded as the subject; questioning how one could portray “the human condition.”
Nothing good left to destroy
2020Screen print on cotton
Edition of 75
Model: Kieran Myles Andres Tverbakk
I don’t want your garbage
2018Watercolor on graph paper, tape, and wood on masonite board.
Another man’s trash is not my treasure. An old studiomate used to leave his garbage on my desk as an “act of kindness.” Instead of making the effort to throw it away himself, he’d say “Oh I thought you might want this?” After asking him not to do it anymore and leaving this work up for months...He never got the message.
