I first remember going abroad when I was eight years old. I had already been carted across several continents before I could talk, but eight is when I discovered wonder, art, and stories.   

I spent nights paging through Star Wars novels at my uncle’s desert farm, and entire days photographing its strange horizons. I looked up from vintage Twilight Zone comics to find baboons watching me through windows. I devoured fairytales in lizard-filled courtyards and towering cliffside houses with basements where the frothing sea roared up from the dark.   

After that summer, I came back and continued growing up in the American Midwest. But my imagination never came home. Since then, I have gone on my own "errant adventures" and nearly fallen off cliffs in more countries than I'd like to admit. I received a BFA in Painting from the Herron School of Art & Design in 2010, and give them all the credit (for the adventures, not the near-death experiences).    

When I paint and write, I try to capture how I felt as a child. Whimsy is realer than realism. Truth is truly stranger than fiction. Fantasy is just another unexplored country.

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