About

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For over twenty years I’ve been paying attention to the stuff most people tune out. Riding the train. Waiting for a bus. Sitting in traffic. Washing your hands. The ordinary, forgettable rhythm of a day.

The Waiting series came out of that, fifteen years of painting anonymous figures caught in routine. I was trying to get at something I think of as everydayness: the fleeting, in-between moments that structure how we actually live.

By making the familiar look strange, the paintings started pulling other things into view. Gentrification, class, ethnicity, the slow reshaping of neighborhoods. But underneath all of that was something simpler: the instant when you see something before you understand it. Perception before interpretation.

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More recently, the work has expanded to include z0glyphic 913. This project integrates painting, installation, and algorithm-guided imagery within a broader conceptual framework. z0glyphic 913 is a speculative, recursive language I’m developing to examine how meaning is constructed, fragmented, and reformed within digital culture and through the lens of artificial intelligence.

The system feeds its own outputs back into itself, mistranslates them, and loops again. Ambiguity isn’t a problem, it’s the process. I collect fragments of online content, news, memes, conspiracy threads, digital noise, and run them through what I call the Satirical Metaphor Engine. It translates them into symbolic scenarios written partly in English and partly in z0glyphic 913. Those become the basis for digital collages, which I then push into paintings through screen printing and hand-painted layers.

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The work moves between algorithmic precision and physical mark-making. Whether I’m painting a solitary commuter or prototyping a symbolic language system, the question underneath is the same: how do we experience the ordinary arrangements of daily life, and what happens when that experience gets mediated, automated, and endlessly recycled?