Artist Statement
I use the structures of role-play-gaming, Architectural Digest spreads, and religious rituals to create allegorical drawings. Leveling up, fantastical landscape, quest items, mythical beasts, and battles are used to mirror real life scenarios where the individual looking for meaning and purpose is manipulated, controlled, or squashed by a superior force. I contrast the reward system in gaming that is finely tuned to balance work with pleasure to the reward system of global capitalism that can feel arbitrary and cruel. My drawings are fantasy power simulations.
My visual style draws largely from the study of master etchings, Dungeons & Dragons manuals, isometric turn-based RPG’s, scriptural narratives, Where’s Waldo, and indie comics.
