Photo by Rashod Xavier Brown
In my work I carry into the present what I cannot escape. I grew up in Appalachia, where epic landscapes sit above an underbelly of a post-industrial decline society. Quarries, evangelical gatherings, and teenagers recur within these spaces—suspended between ritual, spectatorship, and uncertainty.
I work from a combination of constructed source material and observation, building scenes through drawing before translating them into large-scale paintings. The compositions develop slowly: figures are added, removed, and rearranged until the image holds.
biweekly sketchbook: