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Careful What You Wish: An Ongoing Creative Response To Life's Bruising, Amusing Ironies
Exploring our world through the prism of surrealistic imagery and written opinion with a critical eye towards themes in Western media; striving against instincts to deprive my body (having long followed anorexic tendencies); embracing life's quirky facets and beautiful imperfections ...with a great deal of glue.
Monday, July 7, 2025
"Goldfinner"
Thursday, May 29, 2025
"'Shroom For Moore"
A Shrine of the Tines (with Figure in Recline)
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9 in.x 12 in. analog mixed-media surreal collage on spray-painted canvas with botanical catalog clippings and Mod Podge sealant |
"A Lot To Swallow"
- UPON ENTERING MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC SEASON 2025 -
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11 in. x 14 in. surreal analog collage incorporating vintage cookbook imagery on a black canvas board sealed with glossy Mod Podge |
To borrow from the Applebee’s commercial motto, we’re “eatin’ good in the slain bird hood”—? Okay, that’s a stretch. But I know those in the ornithologist circles, both professional and amateur, will at least appreciate the array here.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
"Pondering"




Thursday, May 8, 2025
Revisiting an older still-life —with an additional element + reduced overall measurements
Might this qualify as Pop Art?![]() |
“A patient’s muddled perspective of Renfrew shaded by bewilderment, resentment, and the passage of six years” (spring of 2010 and 2025) |
A rather crude attempt at trompe l'oeil, this older “silver platter still-life” I decided to revisit after it was returned from a friend’s restaurant in Tenant's Harbor this spring, where it had been on display for eagle-eyed patrons. An acrylic painting of many thinly applied layers —note the somewhat warty, plastered texture— it’s a project I’d yet to find satisfaction with until I finally took the leap and cropped it in size from the rectangular 16 inch x 12 inch to align with the reduced dimensions of a 10 inch square black mounted canvas that it was amateurishly hot-glued to. At any rate, the central tray of sweet American junk food including Kellogg Pop Tarts and various Hostess snack cakes has been updated with the addition of a melted popsicle in our nation’s colors, rendered this weekend as an ode to the sloppy, reckless handling of our imperfect democracy.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
"The Optics of Femininity"






