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Metaphysical Surrealism

A Way Down
Oil on Canvas - 23" x 31" - Feb 2020
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Well Whatever Nevermind
Graphite on Paper 2017
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Midnight, December 25th 1993
Oil on Canvas - 28" x 36" 1996

Jenny and I would kiss deeply, and long. There was snow falling.

I looked up at the dark sky riddled with flakes, just dumping down. It was midnight December 25th, 1993.

Jenny, Rachel and I had decided to take a stroll into the night as we’d seen snow coming down from inside her warm cozy house in Chantilly, VA, lit aglow with yellows and crisp siennas from the roaring fire. I think there was a fireplace.

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Full of Stars
Oil on Canvas - 30" x 48" - January 2020
Though from a literal dream I had recently, these symbols are from a series of dreams and night terrors I've had my whole life.
I don't know but am almost convinced this is the vision of the final last days of a planet and its inhabitants.
Not ours.
The dark structures seem to represent death, but now I think that they might be more to take away anyone who encounters them.
Perhaps to or from another dimension...
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Untitled I
Oil on Canvas October 2019
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Ten Thousand Years
Oil on Canvas - 2013
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Fair Oaks Mall
Oil on Wood - 1996
This is a depiction of Mall life
In the era of the latent automobile environment
...Now just beginning to disappear
The two figures in the foreground are
Mellanie and Daniel, good friends of mine from my adolescence.
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In Luminous
Oil on Canvas - 2012
This was a commission from a very important client.
I was told to create a rebirth
And this waking dream is what resulted.
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Vanishing Sun
Oil on Canvas - 2007
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Wind and Whisper
Oil on Canvas - 2012
She's not quite looking at you, almost looking past you
But she's greeting you, unmistakably...Yield here.
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Hotel
Oil on Canvas - 2013
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Fade Away
Oil on Canvas - 2017
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The Dharma Coffeehouse
Oil on Cardboard - 1996
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In a Small World
Oil on Canvas - 2005
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Kristin
Oil on Canvas - 2006
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In Paris
Graphite on Paper
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Self Portrait
Charcoal on Paper 1996
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Vesper Heliotropic
Print Graphic Novel 2008
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In Her Hallway Detail
Oil on Canvas - 2005
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At National
Oil on Canvas - 2005
This is the first painting I did after getting back from France in 2005
I think it represents how lost and yet hopeful I was
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Caroline
Oil on Canvas - 1996
These floating black monoliths topped with turbines inhabited my mind when I first moved to New York
...My childhood self overlooking this future of iron dreams
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The First Time
Oil on Canvas - 2007
This is a painting of the first time I ever laid eyes on a girl who actually liked me.
I was 15.
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Another Fall
Oil on Canvas - 2007
This translucent monolith is a representation of night terrors I had when I was a kid.
I dreamt of endless fields of black rectangles, me falling into them from great heights.
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97
Oil on Canvas - 2017
Tribute to the late Yaffa Cafe, NYC.
This is of a girlfriend I spent time with there in 1997
I frequented the downtown East Village Yaffa Café at 97 St Marks St. many times while attending The School of Visual Arts on 23rd St.
I wept to witness its departure in 2014. Another last of true bohemia in the United States.
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***k The VCR!
Oil on Canvas - 2017
I was visiting Manhattan back in 2016...
and there was this homeless older guy in the NYC subway on Canal St Station
storming all over smashing VHS tapes into the ground, screaming "Fuck the VCR!"
I did this in effigy of his genius.
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Memory and Machines
Oil on Canvas - 1997
Abstract work. Dreams about windmills and turbines.
this piece was done while I was struggling being away at school and my mom's illness...
Has layers of loss, memory, and acclimation to city life just having moved to NYC.
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The Playground
Oil on Canvas - 1996
I spent the early days of my childhood in Centerville, Virginia
a bed room community of apartment complexes primarily of military families
who were at work most of the time.
As a result all the early playgrounds I played on, were empty.
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The Ribbon (Drawing)
Graphite on Paper - 2002
Preliminary drawing of "Ribbon" painting.
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Jefferson Memorial
Oil on Canvas - 2014
Portrait of the Jefferson Memorial at night.
I did a series of D.C. paintings, as this is the area I am from originally.
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The Ribbon
Oil on Canvas - 2003
I often see myself as a female in my dreams as well as my novel.
This is basically a self-portrait of my morning cup of coffee.
The structure in the background is recurring surreal architecture.
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Ravenel Lane
Oil on Canvas - 2009
In Ravensworth Farm, a Northern Virginian suburb not far from D.C.
there was a nun I and my friends encountered who lived in a boarded up house
with a lawn growing over the fence.
She would wander around town asking everyone she met...
"Did you know Jesus loves you?"
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Into The Door
Oil on Cardboard - 1996
This is me heading into a recurring doorway, and cathedral
from a series of dreams featured in another piece I did later called "In Her Hallway..."
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In Her Hallway
Oil on Canvas - 2005
Many of the characters from my dreams are females luring you in...
or warning you, depending on something I've never been able to figure out.
The "Bone Cathedral" behind her is laden with flower carpeting and a mysterious train in a vast underground lair.
The red door appears almost as an after thought...
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Light Years Katherine
Oil on Canvas - 2009
This painting is an actual premonition of my current partner of 6 years, Katherine
whom I met later in 2012.
My grandmother is also named Katherine, and mysteriously has many many things in common with her...
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Works in Progress

Untitled I.
Oil on Canvas October 2019
Very beginning of a new painting.
I think the figures will stay as is pretty much, incomplete.
But the background will take at least a few layers and hence, days to complete.
Using Liquin fast drying/glazing agent.
Full of Stars
Oil on Canvas - Jan 2020
First layer on "A Way Down"
Oil on Canvas - May 2020
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Since you scrolled down this far, you can see ideas I have in the raw. Really raw. Works in progress above.
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