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 watercolor or gouache. 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. I see the same mechanism operating now at national scale — in Project 2025, in Christian Nationalism, in the architecture of what’s being built. It isn’t a surprise to me. I recognized it.
My work is a record of that recognition. A visual archive of resistance, 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