At one time or another, everyone is struck by something they see - an arrangement, a reflection, a shadow, a detail, a texture - that stops us, if only for a minute, just to look. My work is an attempt to fuse impressions and memories of things that have struck me, and fix them in a tangible form.

I was raised in Erie, Pennsylvania. I had a pleasant, stable upbringing in a suburban neighborhood. As a kid, I liked to draw from comic books and Mad magazine and build forts out of scrap lumber. As I got older, my parents encouraged me to pursue commercial art, leading to two years at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where I earned an Associates Degree in Viusual Communications. Since then I've been freelancing as a graphic designer and making art in Pittsburgh.