Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in the traditions that shaped how I see storytelling: the moral economy of Aesop's Fables and the psychological line work of Rembrandt's etchings. These influences, alongside comics like The Dark Knight Returns and Akira, shape work that treats comics as a vehicle for sustained reflection. Dense crosshatching slows the act of reading and asks for deliberate attention.​My stories draw from lived experience and social observation. I use the structure of the parable to explore what often goes unexamined, including human trafficking, addiction, and fractured family histories. These are not confessional narratives. They investigate how private experience collides with larger social forces.​I want readers to recognize something true in these pages, to find insight in stories that feel close to their own lives, even when the subject seems distant. Drawing, for me, is both storytelling and inquiry, a way of making difficult realities legible.