A gouache painting of a figure stepping out of a purple skin suit to reveal skin of a dark, starry night. They stand in front of an abstract compass and wear a long black veil. A ship anchor and knight’s helmet rest at their feet.
A gouache painting of a figure in a suit of armor holding a long upside down sword. Their open helmet reveals a starry sky instead of a face, the same for the shield they carry. They stand against a lilac lace backdrop.
A gouache painting of a figure in a suit of armor holds a large shield painted with a lilac lace pattern. Their purple face stares with solid white eyes as they stand atop a tangle of lilac octopus arms. They stand against an oval-shaped black, starr
A gouache painting of a half-whale, half-ship creature set against a shield-shaped ocean backdrop. Below the murky, black water’s surface is a lilac whale tale and body. Where the whale breeches is the front of an ocean liner that appears to be sinki
A gouache painting of a figure with spotted lilac skin akin to a whale shark. Wearing a long black veil that covers their face, they hold a sword a ship anchor while standing on a dark orange hill with tiny figures running ashore below.
A gouache painting of two figures in profile, one orange and one lilac, standing back to back with feet apart. The orange figure’s head is turned to stare at the viewer, one hand holding the hilt of a sword that drives through both figures’ bellies.
A gouache painting of a red, winged figure with ram horns. Standing in front of a large, orange sun, they crouch to hold the reins of the floating hill they ride. The roots of the hill are made of numerous hands reaching downward.
A gouache painting of a large, spindly tree with dangling roots and fluffy purple leaves below an orange sun. A red winged creature crouches on the roots next to a suit of armor hanging from the branches above. A purple figure peeks out from the trun
A gouache painting of a purple humpback whale diving toward a mantle of lilac coral. Above and scuba diver dives to meet it, shining rays of orange light on the whale with their flashlight.
A gouache painting of a half orange, half lilac figure with rams horns holding a knight’s helmet painted with a starry night sky. They stare upward with white eyes and stick their tongue out. Encircling them is a wreath of Dalia flowers and jelly fis

Harrow | 2019

A solo exhibition at Show Pony in Santa Fe, NM

To escape a great pain as it was inflicted upon me when I was young, I once stared so hard at the night sky that it swallowed me whole and transported me into a safe place in the future. In that moment I understood trauma as time travel and have since worked to capture this elusive expression of time and the echoes of a fractured self through my art and music. 

When, many years later, I found myself confronting this internal divide against the backdrop of a new, reflected trauma, I was compelled to chronicle its unfolding in real time through a visual album. Leaning into my synesthesia and blurred lines between sound, color and texture, ‘Harrow’ was first composed in thematic color palettes, upon which was built a dual visual/sonic language heavy in symbology, nature & metaphor to bring this internal space to light.

Harrow is a work engaging the world much like its namesake, a word defined as both the implement itself and the recipient of its action. These illustrations and their companion songs are a record of reckoning and the act of reckoning itself, and in the wake of such disruption, as with the harrowed ground and harrowed body, a space where new life might take hold.

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