I never really had much interest in working in actual medicine, but I was sort of intrigued by the clinical nature of the imagery and working with bodies. The detachment of medical illustration from its subject can sometimes leave you feeling almost as if you're looking at an alien. Reconciling that strange interiority, especially with your conscious awareness of self, is fascinating, and sometimes frightening to me. 

​Though I am not a spiteful person by nature, a certain vocal minority of bigots and simpletons, who aim to claw their way to the top with the help of a media cycle desperate for a horror story, keep my natural desire to push back against the status quo active and my need to produce art fueled.

​Thus: Spite! My one-person comics anthology of tales I want to tell. An exercise in comics storytelling for immature adults and sophisticated perverts only.  

For my comic release show, I will also be bringing a one-person comic convention of bizarre items that I've produced over the years. Toys, comics, prints, shirts and more insanity. 

The world is a ridiculous place, and humans are ridiculous creatures. We are always doing things that go against our best interests, making bad decisions, even when we know they are bad. Cacoethes means an irresistible urge to do something inadvisable, and I think it’s an essential part of being human. At the same time, the world and its inhabitants are so beautiful, surprising, and wonderful. The absurdity and the beauty seem like they should be mutually exclusive, but they aren’t.

Laughter is often a way for us to resolve cognitive dissonance and cope with ideas and experiences that just don’t make sense. My work is a way to look at the absurdity of the world and human behavior, laugh off the contradictions, and celebrate its beauty at the same time. I love to depict the moment just before something happens - often the moment before something goes terribly wrong - and let the viewer imagine the rest. I feel that it’s a way for us to play together, the viewer and me, and share a laugh. We get to feel a sense of dramatic irony, like we know what’s coming before the subject of the drawing has worked it out.