Visual Work
Visual work that moves across branding, illustration, and symbolic systems — often circling the same question: how do you give form to something difficult to explain?
This is a growing collection of pieces that have found their form.
Myth, Symbol, System
Allegorical Illustration
Mammon
An allegorical portrait of capital as deity — the system that replaced the gods it absorbed.
Symbolic illustration
As Above So Below
A dense nature-symbolic composition exploring reflection, ecology, and the old idea that what lives above is mirrored below.
Symbolic illustration
Sigil / Tree / Rings
A black-and-white meditation on signal, growth, ritual, and systems of belief.
Conceptual illustration
Cosmic Room
A spatial image about thresholds, choice, and the strange architecture of meaning.
Memory, Culture & Imagination
Conceptual illustration
Characters & Colors
Three panels, three palettes, three decades of cultural memory — organized into a chromatic system.
Event poster / applied design
Harvest Benefit for Palestine
A benefit concert poster rooted in Palestinian embroidery traditions — design in direct service of solidarity.
Conceptual systems / visual theory
Externalized Capability
A symbolic image for my Externalized Capability framework — where fire, tools, language, culture, and technology become branches of human extension.
Designed Signals
Deck illustration
PlanNine Skateboard Deck
A vertical animal-totem composition, with meaningfully selected animals, built for an object meant to move through the world.
Brand mark
Acrylic
A flexible identity mark for a music licensing platform designed to move between artists and cultural contexts.
Literary Society identity
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature
A literary society mark built around an iconic dragonfly, balancing regional symbolism with institutional clarity.
Nonprofit identity
HOPE
A warm, direct mark for a young-adult cancer organization — optimism without sentimentality.
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