Set design for The Scottish Opera, 2016

Storyboard for Verdi's Macbeth adaptation, The Scottish Opera, 2016

Set design for Verdi's "Macbeth" adaptation, "The Scottish Opera", 2016

Encouraged by Richard Serra’s statement, “You have to invent your own tools and your own procedures,” I originated the process of rope painting to repurpose heritage for art and spiritual practice.

Similar to a theatre production, rope painting involves mental and physical preparation, concentration, repetition, and chance. It captures the ephemerality of a moment, incorporates the surroundings, and documents the mind.

Rather than resist thoughts, feelings, and the environment, everything folds into my work, such as caliche from the ground in Rocksprings, Texas, thus, blending the artificial with the natural.

Rope painting is meditation in acting that explores the mind and perception through uncommon unions.

Please email me for commission inquiries.

Design for Gay Rodeo By-Laws (GRBL), 2011.

"GRBL (Two Britneys)", circa 2008. Collection of Throckmorton Fine Art.

"GRBL (Nuts in Your Mouth)", circa 2008. Collection of The Ilardi-Lowy Family.

"GRBL (Coke's still $20 an ounce in my neighborhood.)", circa 2008. Collection of The Ilardi-Lowy Family.

Gay Rodeo By-Laws, 2010, Sketch for Fractal Video. Collection of Iliana and Mark Seife.

First draft set design for Verdi's "Macbeth" adaptation, "The Scottish Opera", 2016