Shinto Shrine, Digital Photograph, 2018

The environments in which stories are told, fictional or otherwise, act as a mirror to those who inhabit them.

Shinto Shrine Photo Study, Graphite, 2022

Through analyzing and curating these scattered imprints, we become better able to immerse ourselves in a place and time apart from our own.

The Dream, Digital Animation produced with Blender / Unreal Engine 5 / DaVinci Resolve, 2023

By better identifying with these stories through the worlds that are shaped by them, our ability to empathize, realize a vision, and inspire wonder in our audience becomes more achievable.

Golden Canopy, Digital Photograph, 2021

Temple Guardian, Digital Photograph, 2018

Waterfall, Digital Photograph, 2021

Even in reality, we mark our surroundings with traces of our own identity, from the style of architecture which supports a civilization to the feelings evoked by the natural places we choose to leave untouched.

Superior Landscape, Digital Photograph, 2022

Himeiji Castle, Digital Photograph, 2018

From

fantasizing

our

reality…

Summer Courtyard, Watercolor, 2014

Learned Reflections, Watercolor, 2014

…to

realizing

our

fantasies,

Fishing For Memories, Digital Rendering in Blender, 2022

Fishing For Memories, Paper Mache / Acrylic / Wire, 2022

I seek to turn the ordinary extraordinary and make the fantastic more accessible.