The Odyssey Exhibition

Bataille Is Dead (The Shelling of Reims): July 7th, 2024 "Bataille’s Granero was a somnambulist like Cesare, a figure that is held simultaneously between life and death. The real Manuel Granero died on the 7th of May, 1922 when his eyes were gouged out by the bull. But for Bataille, who was only able to get a distant view of Granero’s death, the young bullfighter became a mangled idol who manifested the excesses of being..." This illustration alongside an assortment of other Bataille-inspired sketches are featured in the accompanying booklet for my upcoming industrial noise album, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. The album will be coming out this Saturday on the 10th on my Bandcamp and YouTube.

Melancholy (Christmas Party): November 30th, 2023

Originally drawn as a sketchbook doodle on a lengthy car ride from Atlanta to an Augustan Thanksgiving family gathering to the tune of John Finn's Wife and Brother, My Cup Is Empty from the Nick Cave album Live Seeds. Digital inking was done in homage to Edvard Munch's lithographs. Happy holidays.

Went ahead and did one of those meet the artist things. Some other lists I considered putting on the illustration were “Items You’d Likely Find On My Cadaver If You Were To Mug Me”, “Sounds That I Heard From My Radiant Heater That Briefly Convinced Me That Someone Broke Into My Apartment” and “A Comprehensive List Of Each Disastrous Breakup Or Divorce That I Happened To Hear Through The Paper Thin Walls Dividing Me Off From My Neighbors While I Blasted 1960s Lounge Music At Full Volume”.