The Inconsistent Journal

Irregularly updated.

  • Beckoning

    The flash of your smile is a lighthouse a means to navigate the rocks and barriers to your heart,  an important and dangerous place. A natural beacon which encourages me. Fresnel lens eyes refract the source behind them,  reverse telescopes telegraphing messages out. Twin mirrors, round and green the light goes forth in quick bright…

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  • Affirmations

    I need to create the systems that support the life I want to lead. That thought has been repeating in my head for weeks now. Possibly months. It’s all I’ve been working on. Longer than that, I’ve know I need to live a nonconventional life. Years ago I was walking through a plaza at sunrise…

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  • Creating is rarely easy

    I’m sitting at a desk, in a house on a farm, looking out a window. I’m not watching what’s happening outside the window, even though it is the most glorious day to look upon. It’s so lovely that I could be feeling guilt for not being out there in that day full of sun and…

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  • Untruth

    Inside me, suspended between  my sternum and diaphragm At the base of where I imagine my heart there is a kernel of False Knowledge The fear that there is something about me seen by the world, to which I am blind That makes me inherently Unlovable

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  • One month (and a bit) into this grand experiment of making-one’s-way-through-life-via-art and I feel great, and horrible. Maple syrup sweetness and gut punch bitterness. Crappy pieces of mail and wonderful friends. Not that these are sides of coins, or that I believe life is as simple as binary examples would imply. I just know that…

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  • When I go for a walk and happen to go past your place  occasionally I will look over towards where I imagine you to be. It’s a habit I haven’t quite broken yet. On a wintery evening you were at my place in an attempt to reforge our relationship.  After an ending that tore so…

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  • Perspective

    Throughout the summer of 2020 I worked on a series of paintings called 1.5 Million Balloons.  I had thought about these paintings for a couple years and decided to stop thinking and start painting, thanks pandemic!  They started out as an exercise, an attempt, something just for me. As I shared them on social media,…

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  • Trusting the Mystery

    Once again I’m revamping my website.  My inner monologue wants to be negative and start a long winded case about sticking with things.  Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, I’m not buying that bullshit anymore.  Change is good.  Trust the mystery.  Each time I start over here I feel like I have a better idea of what…

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  • Centralia – 2014

    In organizing my photos, I keep finding old work that I really love. That makes me happy has an artist. To find things that make me smile, knowing I made them and I still like them. It’s like I’m saying, “I still like me.” These random photos from an impromptu trip to Centralia on October…

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  • 11.22.2019

    I miss being able to get close to people. Being front row, and witnessing beautiful performances by beautiful people. I want to ramble on about how I feel, but that felt too myopic. I just simply miss being close to people. It’ll be a weird and different world when we can fully reemerge. It was…

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