JULY 1ST 2021

Hello again!

It’s been a lot of time since my last entry. I hope you have been well. There has been a lot of new beginnings in the world over the past few months.

Lately I have been working hard on finishing up a series I started back in 2019 before the pandemic. This collection is inspired from a trip to India I went on with an old friend, Mark Abraham in December of 2018. We traveled around India, seeing New Delhi, then to Agra where we saw the Taj Mahal, and to the Ganges River in Varanasi. We were in India to attend Mark’s cousin’s wedding in southern India. A small town called Tuticorin. This trip was over two weeks long.

The experience I had was both inspiring and challenging. The color and movement of this far away world moved me, and the uncontrollable circumstances challenged me to accept life as it presents itself. A challenge I still face today, as well the pandemic we all have been going through.

Here is an entry I wrote down that summarizes this series:

A journey through India. This is a collection of how a complex and diverse country pierces your soul and guides your life through hardships and glorious times. The experience from this trip was something electric and powerful. Uncontrollable moments that shows oneself the meaning of living a life of gratitude and acceptance. Much like the elephant Ganesh, when life seems to present itself as difficult and draining, there comes a deliverance of hope. A hope and love that is electrifying.

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

~Haruki Murakami

We returned home on July 2nd in 2019. I went straight to work, developing the 23 rolls of color and black/white film I had shot with my Yashica 35 Electro and Olympus Stylus. Working on sketches from those photographs, and then produced over twenty paintings over the last two years.

Now that the work has come to a completion, I am finally ready to start the process of showing the collection soon. I’ve also created a companion book that Im self publishing. This book will be a 11 x 8.5 inch Pacific Blue Verona Linen Hardcover. Golden foil stamped cover & spine. 176 pages on Super Smooth Uncoated paper filled with journal entries, sketches, photographs, and finally the completed works of art. You can pre order your copy HERE.

Pictured below are selected samples from the book Electric Elephant.

I’d like to thank everyone that has helped make this possible, especially Mark Abraham and his family.