Witness' Face

16x20"

When the Black Pearl Cycle drawings and accompanying works are completed and displayed at the TinyATH Gallery in October 2020, this drawing will be hang opposite them, facing them, positing:

 "What if a piece of art or body of work, upon observing and experiencing it, could change the viewer, the Witness, in profound, tangible, material ways? What if the "dialogue" relaying betwixt "subject" and "object" were of such a mutagenic and disintegratory nature that the Witness, being dynamic, were molded by the static truths of the work?"

The Mining of Low Justice

14x17"

Directly inspired by a dream, this drawing differs very little from the original imagery. However, between the translation of the dream's emotive tones into "physicalities",  and subconcious influences during its creation, it became more sinister than I anticipated.

This drawing is about transgression, trespass, and stumbling upon something not meant to be seen; it is also about living tunnels, fungal caverns, and abominations wearing terrible disguises...

"I have Known you for So Long": a Black Pearl Resident

When the dream phenomenon of the Black Pearl first began to manifest, and I was wandering blindly through dark corridors which hummed vaguely with deteriorating machinery, I encountered various Residents there, going about their strange existences. The character seen above was one of the first I had direct interaction with. He seemed to recognize me immediately, and, although shy and hesitant to communicate, insinuated that we had a shared past which I did not recall.

When I awoke, I made a quick sketch of the fellow, unaware of where all of this would eventually lead. Months later, he reappeared in another dream, holding a different drawing of himself which he claimed I had sketched of him years before. Upon waking, the memory of this dream-drawing still clear in my mind, I realized that it was indeed a figure study that I had drawn in real life nearly ten years prior, long lost to memory and the wastebasket...
4.5x4.5"

Exasperating Consumption of Elder

8x10", 2017