a multi-media creative, global utility player, exploring with words, photography, collage, installation, collaboration and performance. Drawing from communal experience, inspired by place and materials as collaborators, often crafted from hunted/found/remnant/surplus.

An insatiable linguaphile with expansive compassion, unreasonable expectations, and always a pen.

artiste multidisciplinaire et sculpteur social. Les œuvres comprennent la photographie, l'écriture et le collage, des installations engagées par la communauté, des collaborations et des performances. Les oeuvres explorant l'expérience communautaire, inspirés par le lieu et les matériaux en tant que collaborateurs, souvent fabriqués à partir de vestiges/excédents,/chassée/cherchée le travail  maximise l'impact social avec une empreinte écologique minimale. Linguophile insatiable avec une compassion expansive, des attentes déraisonnables et toujours un stylo.

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  • lantre_undivided

    l'antre

    images & stories collected and noticings making their way into a ~ 5’ H x 8’ W process collage printed to 5 slk scrolls and 5 cotton muslin scrolls.

    First created for installation in a cave across from a chateau in Lavardin France, the Cave de la Resistance, the piece has traveled south to Arles, unique village of the Camargue in southern France instrinsic to the content and context of the creation.

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  • byanymeansnecessary_cover

    [stricken-through] by any means necessary

    (not) by any means necessary

    This album cover suggests a necessary alternative to desperate acts of miitary violence. Bare arms of a young girl hold a piece of the original parchment of a widely known Czech poem about the last butterfly to visit a ghetto.

    Backside lists songtitles and credits. Created with the assistance of Leni Stoeva for the 2024 Workks of Heart auction.

    Works of Heart
  • EVICTED community conversation on housing insecurity

    EVICTED:Memphis Community conversation on housing insecurity

    Local engagement designed for the Greater Memphis Housing Justice Project and the Black Clergy Collaborative, in order to connect local experience to the touring immersive exhibition EVICTED (National Building Museum) based on the book by Matthew Desmond. Exhibition DEC 2022 - JAN 2023 at the Benjamin L Hooks Central Library - Memphis, Tennessee USA.

    EVICTED:Memphis Local engagement
  • process collage: be the candle

    process collage: be the candle

    Process collages follow a consistently inconsistent physical methodology designed to reduce over-edit, over-thinking, expectations, compulsion, blockages, control, habit. The first series were beautiful messes cut to shareable shards.

    This process developed over the years into a method of accessing the subconsious messages noticed in images that stick, and culminated in the process for project l’antre 2023-4 FRANCE.

    process collages: GALLERY a la prochaine

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portrait by yalonda james yoshifoto.com

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  • 7 Juillet 2023 Lavardin

    <<l'antré>> installation JULY 2023 Cave de la Resistance, Lavardin FRANCE

  • ProDuce: prick (CDM)

    ProDuce: prick (CDM) word and image sculpture, early works

  • HI: beeswax feather

    Horn Island: beeswax feather - watercolor photo canvas

  • TB 2002 identity and projections

    (TB02) identity and projections, series of public surveys, portraits, projections, transparencies, installation

  • Dehli: Gutkha

    Delhi: Gutkha, giclee on watercolor postcard set, monoprint

  • for TJ

    for TJ, a vibrant Pisces collage

  • Fireturd

    Fireturd: locally sourced beeswax, surplus wood shavings, pine needles, and rosemary. Flaming sacks of sh*t for gifting, these fire-starting feces were born from irreconcilable political differences and critical humor.

  • beach mandala

    it's a process.