I, and leather, deal in secrets. I am a speculative scavenger — transforming designer and salvaged leather into conduits for stories—both whispered and fractured. Through gestures of suturing, melting, bending, and layering, my sculptures and paintings are neither static nor singular; they are haunted, fractured embodiments of identity and memory that meander through scattered histories and imagined futures. Through meditations on counter-cultural movements— such as the queer nightclub and leather scenes — My leather artworks unveil mythological temporization. These gestures embody a sensual longing and a radical reimagining through methods of disintegration, preservation, and restoration.
The works are eternal and immutable. With materials such as vermiculite (used as prop-debris in explosion movie scenes), rubber dust (detritus from car tires), resin (mimicking sweat), leather hides (well-weathered skins), and neon (puncturing light affecting atmosphere), the sculptures and surfaces are isochronous. they are bodies that are both objects of desire and suffering, a sort-of candlelight shimmering onto destroyed pasts and fictional futures. At the end, my practice is atemporal; a language of excess at the precipice of time fragmentation.
“The Cartographic Figure (As Mad Spectacle),” Winter 2025, leather (sourced from Mexico City, Chicago, and Indianapolis), lavender light, cross-stitch sutures, 40 in (h) x 63 in (w) x 14 in (d)
Detail of "The Cartographic Figure..."
“The Figure Ravaged By The Sublime,” fall 2024, brush-off leather, heat-soaked and molded translucent leather, cross-stitch sutures, neon, cable covers, 47 in (h) x 52 in (w) x 11 in (d)
Detail of “The Figure Ravaged By The Sublime,”
“Pre-Vamped Hides,” 2020-2024 The artist’s collection of leather (some weathered, tooled, or archived), 52 in (h) x 76 in (w) x 15 in (d)
"A Sutured Figure in the Apocalyptic Night,” Spring 2024 Translucent leather, leather harnesses, neon, sweat droplets, mesh cable covers 78 in (h) x 26 (w) x 24 (d)
Detail of "A Sutured Figure in the Apocalyptic Night”
“Hidebound Echoes (Liminal Shatter),” Winter 2025 Oil, encaustic, and vermiculite on salvaged couch leather 20 in x 20 in
“A Cramped, Eccentric Muscle” Hand-and-machine sutured translucent and salvaged leather, dyed meat bags, found stee Summer 2024 7 in (h) x 9 in (w) x 9 in (d)
“The Figure (Pierced) Regenerating From The Fragments,” Fall 2024 Heat-soaked and molded translucent leather and weathered leather, salvaged leather, machine-and-hand sutures, window screen, neon, cable covers, steel 70” (h) x 32” (w) x 28” (d)
Detail of “The Figure (Pierced) Regenerating From The Fragments”
“A Phantom Figure, Lacrimating in the Night” Translucent leather, leather harnesses, neon, sweat droplets, mesh cable covers, dyed meat bags Spring 2024 78 x 26 x 24
Detail of “A Phantom Figure, Lacrimating in the Night”
“Hidebound Echoes (Temporally Exposed)” Oil, encaustic, and dyed meat-bags on salvaged couch leather Winter 2024 22 in x 22 in
“The Figure Sutured, Punctured, and Re-Vamped,” Summer 2024 Machine-and-hand sutured salvaged leather, meat hooks, found steel 33 in x 22 in x 19 in
“Hidebound Echoes (Future Shock)” Fall 2024 Oil, encaustic, and dyed meat-bags on salvaged duffel bag leather 32 in x 32 in
Installation image of solo exhibit "Revealed Armor: Leather and Light" at Epiphany Center for the Arts, May-July 2024
nstallation image of solo exhibit "Revealed Armor: Leather and Light" at Epiphany Center for the Arts, May-July 2024
“An Imputrescible, Closeted Figure” Spring 2024 Heat-soaked and molded weathered leather, sweat droplets, neon, cross-stitch sutures, mesh cable covers, (33 h) x 22 (w) 18 (d)
Detail of “An Imputrescible, Closeted Figure”
“The Figure’s Re-Vamped Muscles,” Fall 2024 Translucent leathers, leather harnesses, variety of other salvaged leathers, dyed meat-bags, found steel 28 in (h) x 45 in (w) x 6 in (d)
Detail of “The Figure’s Re-Vamped Muscles”
“An Imputrescible Figure With A Punctured Thoracic,” Spring 2024, Heat-soaked and molded leather and translucent leather, brush-off leather, cross-stitch sutures, neon, mesh cable covers 20 (h) x 53 (w) x 12 (d)
Detail of "“An Imputrescible Figure With A Punctured Thoracic"