Happy as a Pig in Shit

Happy as a Pig in Shit Emoticons are certainly trendy, and I certainly avoid trends like the plague. However, when one of your rules is to purposefully explore things you normally don’t this becomes a challenge to accept. The trick is to riff on it, with a twist, in the hopes that it evolves into […]

Art Collage 01

Art Collage 1 No phrase, idiom, or quotation being visualized here. Just the sheer joy of playing with collage. A melting-pot image recomposed of photography, patterns, color blocks, line art, and even drawings from our young daughter.

Tyler Durden

Maybe Self Destruction is the Answer Coming together? Coming apart? Improving or destroying? Sometimes it all blurs together, and even with the best of intentions you lose track of which is which. Meanwhile, any Fight Club fans can probably read other layers into Tyler Durden’s philosophy.

Lipstick on a Pig

Lipstick on a Pig Sure, it’s a bit irreverant. And probably not something I want to explain to my 9-year-old daughter. But it’s doing what it means. The act of putting lipstick on a pig, by it’s very nature, means to fancify something unpleasant. And that something here is lipstick on the unexpected end of […]

The Devil is in the Details

The Devil is in the Details As luck would have it the various, necessary words nest within each other perfectly to illustrate this phrase—almost. “The Devil” is, in fact, inside “The Details” with the subtle addition of a tiny “v”. But that small addition is a detail itself.

Yoda

Yoda Are you on the light side of The Force, or the dark? Either way–they’re both concerned with amounts of light. This Lite Brite construction of Yoda plays up that notion while allowing Yoda’s lightsaber to actually glow. And if you want to delve deeper: the right side mostly has an absence of actual light, […]

The Buddha

“A Man Who Conquers Himself…” Internal and external war transformed into a state of peace. Zen and design.

Pissing in the Wind

Pissing in the Wind Knowing that your efforts will be fruitless in the eyes of another feels like an endless childish battle. It’s a struggle that no one can completely win. Child-like media, style, and situation reflects this.

Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine Haunting imagery that is painted with semi-transparent layers of light that emerge from the darkness. Abstract—with just a hint of human characteristics—so as to feel like something you think you remember from a dream. Or something you swear you saw out of the corner of your eye as a child. It […]

Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Is it a horseshoe turning into a grenade or a grenade turning into a horseshoe? It doesn’t matter because this symbolic double entendre simultaneoulsy depicts both. It doesn’t hurt that the shapes fit perfectly together. Is that kismet?