First and foremost a storyteller, I am intrigued by the ways that an audience can be engaged through the use of text and image and other media (sound/video, etc.). 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 yet 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 draw parallels between the historic and contemporary nature of LGBT identities, their relationships and how a culture of fear, rejection and repression has shaped them.

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). I have also done some website design and Flash animation.

Currently I am researching stop-motion animation for a project I'm working on this Summer which is an adaptation of the story I created for my MFA thesis project and I am also working on a few smaller books as well as my novel, The Osiris Mechanism. I hope to have a finished draft of the latter quite soon.