ABOUT / CONTACT
Howdy! I do a lot of things: illustration, design, animation, letterpress printmaking, bookbinding, oil painting, portraiture, photography, art direction, archviz, woodworking, building, creative direction. I have mixed this wide selection of skills together over a broad career that has spanned industries from publishing, advertising, design and animation studios, and college-level instruction. In 2020, I obtained my MFA in Design and published Homeward Nomad, a selected anthology of sketchbooks, shortly thereafter arriving in Oslo.
My personal work is focused on creativity’s relationship to technology, critically exploring its practical and societal impacts and encouraging self-reflection on its ethics through compositional subject matter, blending historic and contemporary media, or both. If you’re interested in these subjects or are a member of the Oslo creative or educational community, let’s be friends!
Let’s talk about A.I.
Artificial Intelligence is already having a huge impact on our industry and will only continue to increase it’s presence in our daily workflows. There are serious ethical concerns as far as intellectual property rights, credit, and impact on jobs, but like it or not it is here to stay. Work with creatives who both understand these platforms and their ethical implementations, and have established guidelines for it’s use. I am an experienced user of AI platforms, done mostly to understand the problems and possibilities of this emerging technology, and I have some basic rules I follow:
NEVER use AI for finished work. EVER. I am dubious on the idea that use of any AI, especially those based on Large Language Models that scrape the internet can ever be truly used ethically, but the closest we currently get is ONLY ever using AI as an ideation tool to help spark ideas or communicate concepts to be further developed, executed and completed with human hands, hearts and brains.
Only use AI to supplement skills I already have. (F.eks: I am a figurative artists and can recognize AI’s anatomical errors and correct for them.)
Never use AI where at all possible.
Never trust AI. Always double check for factual content, assumptions, writing structure, etc.
Work produced for
MONTÉR
ASSISTERMEG
FOOTLOCKER
HEINZ
FX NETWORK
RESERVATION DOGS
MICROSOFT
UBER
McDONALD’S
LINKEDIN
THE SALVATION ARMY
SPRINT
THE UNITED WAY
HALLMARK
HILLS SCIENCE DIET
HINT / Take2
SHOTTRACKER
CITY of FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA
BEAUTY BRANDS
KCPL
CUBIC CREATIVE
CHARLES SMITH WINES / K VINTNERS
THE NEBRASKA LOTTERY
BANNER MEDIA
HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION
COLUMBIA COLLEGE
LONE WOLF
NOVARIA AEROSPACE & DEFENSE
ARTSKC (Scope Client)
THE PITCH (Art Director & Production Director)
THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT
STEMCELL SCIENCE SHOP
THE TULSA VOICE
THIS LAND (Art Director)
URBAN PROVISIONS
WEST 18th ST FASHION SHOW
AWEFULL MEDIA
LIVING ARTS TULSA (SCOPE)
