I’m a mixed media artist & humorist informed by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia and committed to seeing the beauty in all things. My work is derived more from academic and intellectual ideas than a traditional fine arts background. My academic background is in the social and psychological sciences, and themes from social theory, psychoanalysis, historical sociology, linguistics, and philosophy often undergird the content of my work.
In addition to my artwork, I’ve published four books of
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I’m a mixed media artist & humorist informed by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia and committed to seeing the beauty in all things. My work is derived more from academic and intellectual ideas than a traditional fine arts background. My academic background is in the social and psychological sciences, and themes from social theory, psychoanalysis, historical sociology, linguistics, and philosophy often undergird the content of my work.
In addition to my artwork, I’ve published four books of poetry, including two indie national finalists, “Graffiti on the Window” (2014-2015) and “the arithmetic of <3” (2018). I also write and produce a fair amount of visual and verbal satire, some of which made its way into my radio play “UnHinGeD” a peer-reviewed social theory piece on the social construction of psychosis in 2014. I am affiliated in publishing with Wilshire Press and I own and operate the indie firm, Illogical Conceits Publishing and Multimedia.
Throughout 2018-2019 I’ve started work at Cracked Magazine pitching satire and experimenting with memes as a legitimate art form. During this time I’ve also entered the lecture circuit, giving talks at area community colleges, universities, mental health centers, and conferences on social welfare, structural inequality, and finding personal peace through art and philosophical modifications in intellectual pursuits.
I currently live and work out of a studio in west Kansas City, Missouri.
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