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Green T Productions, a Minneapolis-based theater company, invited me to create a work inspired by their live performance of Tales from Rashomon as part of their innovative "Artists' Corner" program; I created this during the show from the rear of the Historic Mounds Theatre (St Paul, MN) on March 3, 2016.

Here a fan-brandishing bandit unravels a lady's obi sash during his dastardly attack.

Abstract and colorful, my work is often pointedly digital in appearance, combining soft elements-- hand-drawn forms, pastels, and gentle color gradations-- with hard elements, such as sharp edges with visible 'pixels,' and other obviously digital artifacts (layering, duplication, repetition, etc). I favor spare, minimal rendering that invites the viewer's eye to complete the picture. I also enjoy the idea of the ellipse as an infinity symbol-- it's a simplified figure 8, really-- and frequently use this shape as a sort of 'atomic unit' in my pattern-based work. When buying a print of my work: I recommend the Metal Print option for most of my work (especially those subtlest images with low contrasts and fine misty gradients), as it...