Aliens, Daemons, Death, Etc.
So.. Aliens, Demons and Death. These are metaphors, more or less revolving around connection. Daemons represent defense mechanisms, or things that helped you to survive in the past but aren’t helpful anymore. Death represents what it always represents, whatever we cannot figure out. Aliens mean a lot of things, including growing up. It is also a reference to an old friend.
I’m grouping them here because in an emotional way, I feel they belong together.
Martian, 2016
This is a painting of a Tim Walker photograph
Drunk, 2020
If I had known then what I know now, 2024
Family, 2020
A Dose and a Ghost, 2022
Glinda, 2020
Dad’s Basement, 2020
I keep coming back to the idea that I want you to move beyond this, 2022
Gone, 2020
Death in the Sea, 2022
In My Tree II, 2022
The world is fit for all manner of mysteries, 2024
Internal Family Systems, 2020
Asleep in the Deep, 2020
Happy 37th Birthday, 2020
No Pieces on the Board, 2021
New Orleans I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, 2015
Hiding in Someone Else’s Mountain, 2010
Dreams Like This Must Die, Part II, 2021
copy of a copy, 2020
Copied from a Woodrow White painting, last I checked his website expired but I’ll link to it once it’s back up.. his work is great.
Daemon, 2020
here i am and there you are, 2020
Thank You!!
Thank You!!
THANK YOU FOR COMING
And thank you for making it this far. You did it!
My favorite song in High School was “The Long Road” by Pearl Jam. It helped me conceive that life will be complicated, long, and short. The song is about Eddie Vedder processing learning that his high school teacher who really helped him in the past had passed away. I am forever grateful to the teachers and mentors who helped me see myself and my value not by blowing smoke up my ass, but by simply seeing me. I think this is why I love social work, and why I love teaching.
Ok this is enough. Goodbye.