Art as Resistance
Deflection Machine 2025 Gouache/watercolor on paper
Wholly Heathen is my daily painting ritual — two or three small works each morning in acrylic, pencil, and charcoal. The practice is steady by design. It keeps me from looking away.
I grew up inside Christianity wielded as fear. I watched love used as a weapon, compassion as cover for control. What I was handed wasn’t faith — it was a system for resolving contradiction before I was old enough to feel the tension.
I see that same system operating now at national scale. In Project 2025, in Christian Nationalism, in the architecture of what’s being built. The cruelty isn’t incidental. It’s the output. Ordinary people enter carrying contradiction and exit with conscience restructured.
My work tries to show the mechanism — not just what it produces, but how it runs. A visual archive of recognition, shaped by estrangement and ritual.
I live and work on the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
Recent Reads
• The Power Worshippers — Katherine Stewart — tracing the political machinery of the religious right
• The Bible Says So — Dan McClellan — examining misconceptions and controversies around scripture
• The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers — exploring myth as a lens for human meaning and cultural storytelling
• The Age of Grievance — Frank Bruni — how grievance culture shapes politics and society
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire — Kurt Andersen — a 500‑year history of America’s embrace of fantasy and unreality
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — Eric Hoffer — classic study of fanaticism and mass movements