Looking back at some of my most meaningful work over the past few years in celebration of finally reaching 100,000 views! Thanks to Behance for being such a great medium for sharing projects, and to the creative community for all the amazing comments, views, and likes. It really means a lot, please enjoy checking out this selection of images that I think have been the most interesting and important so far in my career.
Sanctuary (diptych)
Sanctuary, created for an exhibition entitled “Swallowed by the Jungle”, envisioning a world where nature has reclaimed modern civilization and exotic animals have emerged from their enclosures to inhabit the new wild spaces.
Sanctuary I
Sanctuary II
Floating World (New York series)
Floating World (New Orleans series)
Floating World, ongoing project exploring the impacts of climate change on the planet, and the impending issues of sea level rise in coastal cities around the world.
Wall Street
Flatiron Building
Jackson Square
French Quarter
Photoshop User (magazine cover)
Slash+Burn
Slash+Burn, was created in response to the growing issues of deforestation, industrial pollution, and the current administration’s efforts to gut environmental protections. With this project I wanted to portray the costs associated with slashing regulations by showing what would be lost.
Water Protector
Water Protector, created in solidarity with protesters at Standing Rock, ND. Inspired by the Lakota prophecy about a “Black Snake that would slither across the land, desecrating sacred sites and poisoning the water before destroying the earth.”
Green City
Green City, commission for the Nature Conservancy envisioning a prospective future that incorporates sustainable energy, green building, and conservation in the town of Collingswood, New Jersey.
Fifth World
Fifth World, commission for a post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG. “The movement of biomass from ancient forests to the walls and furniture of sprawling suburbs will become some of the richest soil on Earth when they decompose, and from that soil, new forests will spring among the detritus of the suburbs.”
Ultima (book cover)
Ultima, a body of work that is deeply rooted in environmentalism, showing my concern for the future by depicting the ways in which mankind’s creations have an impact on the planet. Primarily it is about the modern conflict between the manmade world and the natural world, and between contemporary and indigenous cultures. I portray this as an epic struggle and in my work these forces clash in theatrical, post-apocalyptic battlegrounds. My goal with this project was to create striking juxtapositions between the ruins of modern civilization and a futuristic ecological utopia. The narrative progression shows a rediscovery of these remnants belonging to the conceivably forgotten past.
Ultima I (series)
Hunting Grounds
Path of the Ancients
Remnants of Time
Bridge to Ruins
Ultima II (series)
The Spirit Journey
The Great Divide
Dancing Spirits
Place of Power
Ultima III (series)
The Dream Time
Shrine of the Sun
The Forbidden Path
Surrounded by Eternity
Ultima (artist book)
Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita, image created for Desktopography, inspired by the effects of climate change in the northern Arctic where melting polar ice caps, methane leaks, and plant and animal species migrations are creating a strange and unknown new world.
Megafauna
Megafauna, image created for Desktopography, inspired by the extinct species of large mammals in North America such as the mastodon and smilodon that perished 10,000 years ago in the Pleistocene mass extinction.
The Hunt
The Hunt, book cover for a post-apocalyptic novel by science-fiction writer Martin Rex.
Sumeru (series)
Sumeru, a body of work that metaphorically illustrates the mental journey that is undertaken in Zen Buddhist training and practice. In Zen literature, the word ‘land’ is commonly used as a symbol for the ‘mind’, and through a series of photographic montage images I have envisioned an exploration into the depths of this metaphorical ‘mind-world’. The narrative follows a spiritual quest as the storyline symbolically wanders through various states of consciousness and perceptions.
Trailing Mud and Dripping Water
The Forest of Thorns
Entangling Vines
Mountains and Waters
Entering the Stream
The Land of Silent Light
The Mountain of Darkness
A Death-Dealing Blade
Overturning Mountains
A Life-Giving Sword
After Capture (magazine cover)
Sumeru (artist book)
Migration (series)
Migration, is a body of work that was created as a response to the increasing issues of urban sprawl and deforestation that are destroying wild spaces. My images show a series of animals navigating through the ruins of industrial society in search of their missing homes.
Coyotes
Moose
Bears
Eagles
Spirit Bear
Spirit Bear, a new piece created in honor of Bears Ears National Monument, and to protest the current administrations efforts to significantly shrink Native American and public lands in Utah. This land is considered sacred to many southwestern tribes including the Ute, Zuni, Hopi, Diné, and Navajo, who are fighting this unprecedented attack on their sovereignty.
Guardian
Guardian, an early project representing the modern struggle between nature and industry, in response to issues of deforestation that are displacing animals from their natural habitats.
