First and foremost a storyteller, I am intrigued by the ways that an audience can be engaged through the use of text, image and other traditional and digital media. Whether in my written or visual artwork, including artist's books and bookworks, sculptures, paintings, and drawings, I strive to communicate a narrative that is often darkly humorous, sometimes political, but hopefully engaging to an audience.

My personal aesthetic combines the visual elements of the Gothic, vintage animated cartoons, comics, illustrated novels and toys with a narrative that at first seems geared towards children. By using this seemingly playful imagery, I seek to subvert the audience’s expectations by exploring the darker themes of childhood, the body, gender and sexuality, death, the occult and the supernatural. In particular, with my Thesis piece, Haunted, I drew parallels between the historic and contemporary nature of LGBT identities, their relationships and how a culture of fear, rejection and repression has shaped them.

Currently, I am a Creative Specialist at Dean Media Group, in Chicago, where I primarily design and produce print collateral, flash banner ads and other online media. Previously, my design work has recently focused primarily on multi-page print publications and print collateral, including the design and production of issues 23 and 24 of the Journal of Artist's Books (a publication of Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago) and also Little Bang (the literary/art journal founded by the writing group T3, of which I'm a member).

Currently I am working on a second draft of my novel 'The Osiris Mechanism,' and various other artists' books.