My work has always revolved around a cutesy, cartoonish and a classic rubber-hose animation style. My biggest inspirations are from my childhood, including animation such as Walt Disney’s original Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat. I have also enjoyed exploring new age renditions of this style through video games series Cuphead and Bendy and the Ink Machine and often pull inspiration from these media sources when creating new work. I cling to animation’s nonsensical exaggeration of emotions and the human figure as well as the overall disregard for any sense of anatomy or physics. My goal is to create pieces that seem as if they simply jumped off the page of an animator’s sketchbook. 

At the core of my artistic endeavors is a commitment to introducing fun and playfulness into everyday scenes through multimedia and interactivity. I love to make what I have deemed “Lil’ Guys” which often include inanimate or mundane objects with very animated faces and bright and playful colors. Some examples of this include a few of my recent ceramic sculptures: a thoughtless to-go box with his tongue out, a winking camera and a “dumb” looking rock. 

In a world that often emphasizes modernity, minimalism and serious traditional art, my mission is to make work that shows it’s okay to be silly, and that it doesn’t invalidate its message. I view the world through a rainbow lens, celebrating the delightful absurdity of life and attempting to engage those who have stifled their childhood whimsy. I want to draw in a broad spectrum of viewers, uniting people from all walks of life in a shared exploration of the fun in the mundane.