My work combines painting, photography, and live drawing to investigate time, memory, and presence — what a moment holds before it’s gone for good. Having experienced profound blindness, I know intimately how much the world can change without permission, and as a father, I feel the particular grief of time that cannot be recovered.

I work in trichromatic photography, acrylic marker painting with bold black outlines, and screen printing — media that share a common logic of layering, reconstruction, and vivid presence. My influences are rooted in wonder rather than the art world: PBS nature documentaries and science fiction taught me that sustained, careful looking is a form of understanding. I carry geography in my name — I grew up in Marquette, Kansas, saw Alaska first through nature television, and my children were born on the Oregon coast, where my practice October Coast Art is rooted. Animals have been my primary subjects since childhood. In my WHALE’S ONUS series, skeletal whales swim through cosmic space, their bones luminous and purposeful — what persists after everything else falls away.

My current work, HOLD STILL, brings these threads together. Using trichromatic photography, I will photograph my youngest daughter Luna moving freely before tall grasses blown by a fan — she will appear as a colorful phantom, never ceasing despite my plea. The faces of my other children will be screen printed on the moving grass stems. The technique demands that I remain completely still; that stillness is the point. I have been separated from my children, and there is still time. I cannot make them hold still, and I would not want to. What I can do is be still for them, a steady place when their world is shaky, and offer them the same wonder that saved me — even on the days I have nothing left but that.