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Background:

I make these wild looking YouTube music videos utilizing composited and layered images and films. I bring together imagery from a wide variety of sources that I then heavily manipulate as to make them nearly unrecognizable from their original state.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRQsJYM1P873Af7p3h1Jrw
As an artist from Chicago, I have been influenced by my fellow SAIC alumni Ed Paschke (who I deeply venerate) and keep in mind when I make these visual concoctions. I first started making videos like this from the time I was a “VJ” at a notorious night club “Medusa” for play in their video room the mid-80’s. With no digital technology back then I used slide projectors, random 8mm films (that I got from 2nd hand stores) which I then “mistreated” chemically and often scratched up to create “glitch-y” textures over the top of projected videos that I previously edited together with scenes from both old and new-ish films. At the time I had no conc...

I presently reside in Yaroomba near the town of Coolum Beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. I have been consistently producing art work for a good portion of my life. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and an Art Education Certificate from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. I was born and raised in the city of Chicago, but since 1996 I live and work in Australia . My artistic influences are pretty eclectic. I am thoroughly steeped in the history of western art from ancient to modern and I have explored thoroughly the art of Islam, ancient Greek, Roman, Sumerian and Egyptian art as well. My work can vary from the abstract to the strictly academic, from the surreal to the illustrative. I paint what I feel like painting in...