This story originally appeared in Dirge Magazine on April 7, 2017. The retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s artwork currently on display at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum showcases a 6-decade career hallmarked by obsessive, mind-bending repetitions of patterns and immersive viewer experiences. The exhibition has turned into a social media sensation. An Instagram selfie in a Kusama infinity room such…
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This story originally appeared in Dirge Magazine on Jan. 26, 2017. Barbie body harvesters are turning your favorite childhood toys into unnerving and unforgettable works of art. Dolls placed into scenes of sin and sexuality create disarming juxtapositions. Detached, neatly contoured limbs and severed, big-eyed heads make an uncanny valley torture chamber. Scroll down and feast your…
This story originally appeared in Dirge Magazine on Dec. 28, 2016. Since it’s publication, Dirge went to black and white photos. I’m reprinting the piece here in color with permission. Since its inception in 1947, the CIA has directly and intentionally shaped American culture in an effort to promote a positive image of America at…
This story originally appeared in Dirge Magazine on Dec. 28, 2016. Since it’s publication, Dirge went to black and white photos. I’m reprinting the piece here in color with permission. When photographer Fred Scruton approached the colorful Niagara Falls, New York home and saw the extensive hand-painted ornamentation covering the house and yard, he knew he’d found…
The now-defunct Well Told Tales podcast paired original short stories with professional voice actors. They were creating podcasts before podcasts were cool. Well Told Tales produced two of my short stories. The first is “Final Notice”, a story about a woman harboring a dangerously over-sized cat. “I Used to Love Her” is a comedic zombie…
During the summer of 2017, I made a 4-foot tall tentacle sculpture and placed it in various places around Washington, D.C. I’ve compiled the resulting photographs into this video.
Tenleytown Main Street invited me to create an installation for Art All Night DC, 2017. I created #DCUFO. You can see pictures in the video below
My installation “#DCUFO” will be at the welcome center for the Tenleytown location of Art All Night DC. The first 100 visitors will receive free alien artwork, and everyone can get a photo next to the alien holding a DC flag in front of a 10-foot diameter UFO. Below are pictures of the project in…
On Tuesday, August 1st, I placed giant tentacles in a small park near the Dupont Circle metro stop. This was part of a larger street art project entitled #TentacleTuesday. Here are some of the resulting pictures.
Do you ever wake up, realize it’s #TentacleTuesday, and wish you had appropriate celebratory attire? I turned one of my tentacle drawings into merchandise. You can click on the image below to buy things. If you don’t see what you want, tell me and I’ll see what I can do.
Recently, while trying to wrap my head around the pop-surrealist art movement, I stumbled across a video showing a painting of a creepy, big-eyed Katy Perry likeness reclined amongst flowers and forest animals with audio of the famous pop singer covering the 1892 song “Daisy Bell.” I found similar videos featuring Tyler the Creator, Weird…
On Tuesday, June 27th, I placed giant tentacles on top of a traffic box in the DC neighborhood of Takoma and later moved them to an open lot in Tenleytown. This was part of a larger street art project entitled #TentacleTuesday.
Be on the lookout for tentacles emerging from the tops of D.C. traffic boxes and in public spaces throughout the city starting this Tuesday and continuing through the summer. Local street artist Theodore Carter will show his 5-foot tall sculpture made largely from recycled materials. In February, Carter created #100DucksDC, a public display of one…
My story “The Great Escape” is featured as a podcast by Second Hand Stories. The story is a fictional account of the very real tradition of holding a seánce for Harry Houdini annually on the anniversary of his death, Halloween. I wrote about the Houdini séance for Dirge Magazine. Elizabeth Carter did the recording for…
The retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s artwork currently on display at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum showcases a 6-decade career hallmarked by obsessive, mind-bending repetitions of patterns and immersive viewer experiences. The exhibition has turned into a social media sensation. An Instagram selfie in a Kusama infinity room such as “Phalli’s Field” is a status symbol,…
