Backstory

This is the first blog post on this new website. Justice, my girlfriend of three years, made it for me. I’ve had a spotty history with websites. I kept an aggressively routine daily blog from 2008 to 2010, had a self-made website from 2011 to 2012, did various kickstarters from 2013 to 2016 and then went into full reclusive artist mode only sharing vague and confusing images with the ~700 people who follow me on instagram. I have a history of overreaching with my social media, then becoming self conscious and blowing the whole thing up. I’m fairly certain I’ve lost a number of friends doing that. Hopefully I won’t be doing that this time. Not least of all because this time I am 35 and relatively more stable as a human being. But also because I’m ready to try and own my role. I am and have been for about twenty years fully artistically preoccupied. I had drawn since I was a child but and dosed with Painting, Theatre and Writing in high school and wound up going to college to get a double major in Painting and Film and a concentration in Belief Systems. In my last year of college I was so enamored with learning that I took up a music practice, which to that point I had only had fumbling experience. I also found a project that both compelled me to spend hours on it and seemed to hit a resonant tone with a larger audience. In 2009 I finished a 9 by 6 foot oil painting of about 1400 recognizable cartoon characters. That painting and it’s successors took me to Comic Con San Diego, got my name on Adult Swim, Funded six kickstarters and moved me to New York City where I spent five years selling prints and reading books. Since then I returned to California to paint landscapes and build a practice of writing. Plus I wound up teaching art part time which has been a great opportunity to verbalize what I know. I can’t tell you exactly what this website is going to be (because I don’t know) but what I’d like is to be posting here with decent regularity and building up a body of content that works aesthetically, intellectually and comedically with an eye toward environmental justice and solidarity. I’ll try to do at least one thoughtful post a week that will keep you present on what I’m working on and give you ways to collect, support and collaborate. Thanks for reading.