What I want in my photography is not the sweet stuff but secondhand beauty – rusty truck beds or wilted swaths of North Dakota sunflowers. What I look for in my illustrations is a simple graphic idea – something that transforms the mundane into a metaphor. I use a stencil and spray paint, markers, pencil and digital photography. The result is a montaged composite of all original illustrations, graphic design and all original photography.

I graduated from Minneapolis Technical Institute with a degree in Commercial Art, Illustration and Photography. I have a 35-year history in graphic design and image building in the best of Minneapolis’ graphic design shops and advertising agencies. The bedrock of my career began in old-school, pre-digital printing. My first job was stacking boxes and sweeping the floor in a print shop where a man still ran a letterpress printer in the back.