PAINTING
PORTFOLIOS
AMERICAN BONES SERIES
2011-2017
NARRATIVE
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2011- 2017
AMERICAN BONES SERIES
2011-2017
NARRATIVE
OF PLACE
2011- 2017
AMERICAN BONES
The American Bones series is a multimedia project examining the origin stories embedded in American culture. Drawing from a decade of road trips across the country, the work combines projections, film, photography, and painting to construct a visual commentary on the nation’s cultural bone structure. Architecture, landscapes, portraits, public monuments, and the commodified memory of the souvenir are treated as artifacts within a larger culture industry shaped by myth, repetition, and desire.
From Coney Island to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the roller coaster emerged as a central icon of the series. These amusement parks shaped American entertainment, literature, and early technological imagination.
The rollercoaster represents American inventiveness, but also American excess. Born of coastal expansion and industrial confidence, the roller coaster stages risk as entertainment and engineering as spectacle. It promises freedom through velocity, yet it runs on rails. It markets individuality while moving bodies in synchronized arcs of anticipation and fear.
The roller coaster condenses the contradictions of the American project. As a collective shared experience, it cuts across class, politics, and religion. It embodies ambition and escapism, innovation and distraction, collective longing and engineered desire.
The roller coaster therefore becomes a fitting icon for examining America’s cultural bones, carrying within its scaffolding the ambition, contradiction, and engineered desire that shaped the nation.
︎︎︎ PHOTO + PAINT + SOUVENIR EXHIBITS 2011-2021
︎︎︎ AMERICAN ROAD TRIPS 2011-2017
︎︎︎ ARCHITECTURE, PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE
︎︎︎ KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
︎︎︎ ARCHITECTURE, PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE
︎︎︎ KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
︎︎︎ TECH SHOP SPONSOR
︎︎︎ RESIDENCIES, NEW MEXICO and MA![]()
The American Bones series is a multimedia project examining the origin stories embedded in American culture. Drawing from a decade of road trips across the country, the work combines projections, film, photography, and painting to construct a visual commentary on the nation’s cultural bone structure. Architecture, landscapes, portraits, public monuments, and the commodified memory of the souvenir are treated as artifacts within a larger culture industry shaped by myth, repetition, and desire.
From Coney Island to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the roller coaster emerged as a central icon of the series. These amusement parks shaped American entertainment, literature, and early technological imagination.
The rollercoaster represents American inventiveness, but also American excess. Born of coastal expansion and industrial confidence, the roller coaster stages risk as entertainment and engineering as spectacle. It promises freedom through velocity, yet it runs on rails. It markets individuality while moving bodies in synchronized arcs of anticipation and fear.
The roller coaster condenses the contradictions of the American project. As a collective shared experience, it cuts across class, politics, and religion. It embodies ambition and escapism, innovation and distraction, collective longing and engineered desire.
The roller coaster therefore becomes a fitting icon for examining America’s cultural bones, carrying within its scaffolding the ambition, contradiction, and engineered desire that shaped the nation.
︎︎︎ PHOTO + PAINT + SOUVENIR EXHIBITS 2011-2021
︎︎︎ AMERICAN ROAD TRIPS 2011-2017
︎︎︎ ARCHITECTURE, PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE
︎︎︎ KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
︎︎︎ ARCHITECTURE, PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE
︎︎︎ KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
︎︎︎ TECH SHOP SPONSOR
︎︎︎ RESIDENCIES, NEW MEXICO and MA
