Vacationland USA
Growing up in Minnesota, I was never far from a lake. But the only time I ever got to swim in a pool was during our family's cross-country road trips. After long days on the highway, arriving at a roadside motel with a bright blue swimming pool felt almost magical. To me, those pools represented a different world, one of sunshine, leisure, modern architecture, and possibility. Brief as they were, those moments left a lasting impression.
Vacationland USA grows out of those memories. Drawing inspiration from roadside motels, sideshow attractions, and the mythology of the American road trip, these works explore the landscape of vacation as both a real place and a state of mind. The pools, buildings, and open skies that appear throughout the series are less about specific destinations than about longing, nostalgia, and the promise that somewhere just beyond the horizon, a different life might be waiting.
Midwest Memories
Midwest Memory is a six‑part meditation on the way time reshapes what we think we remember. Each piece explores the shifting relationship between memory, space, and color — how landscapes blur, flatten, and reassemble themselves long after we’ve left them. This series isn’t about the Midwest as it was, but the Midwest as it continues to echo, evolve, and insist on being re‑seen.
Elsewhere
Sometimes I leave the desert. Not often, but it happens.
And when it does, I end up making things that don’t fit neatly into Joshua Trees, mountain horizons, or ancient‑artifact energy. These are the pieces from road trips, memory trips, emotional detours, and the occasional “how did I end up in the Midwest again” moment.
They’re too green, too nostalgic, too humid, too polite — basically everything the desert refuses to be.
So I gathered them here, in one tidy little category called Elsewhere, because “Not the Desert” felt a bit on the nose.​​​​