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The Moonlight Smothered My Pure Thoughts

The Moonlight Smothered My Pure Thoughts Charcoal & Collage on 18 x 24" 140lb watercolor paper Original Available Here 16 x 20โ€ณ Giclee Print on Premium Watercolor Paper Print Available Here The night tastes different, speaking in tongues. Purity shatters so beautifully, watch it spider. When morning seeps through the curtains, you'll wonder why you ever untied her....

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An Honest Flag

An Honest Flag It's not really me to sit idly by. Whenever I feel compelled to do something, I do it. It's easy to feel helpless during these times, but I always fall back on what I do and have to offer. I wanted to create and say something I was feeling and something that in turn may help even but a little. The last two supreme court rulings, the overturning of Roe v Wade followed by allowing teacher/staff lead prayers in public schools, have solidified the urgency for a more accurate flag.ย "An Honest Flag" was the outcome, something much......

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Red Velvet Fluid Vignette

My words so smooth, glossed over your heads with commas scraping whatever is left of you. Commas cut, I'll bleed you wet. Red velvet fluid vignette. You know I've got the combination to the blood bank (anything but) safe between your thighs. So attached to death, advocate for the flies. I'll get out what's good from you, just to be close to your peak moment. And you'll know I control it.Red Velvet Fluid Vignette was also transformed into a spoken word musical composition. I hope you enjoy this writing piece and another taste of why I have been continually referred......

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The Third Time’s A Harm

The Third Time's a Harm Charcoal on 18 x 24โ€ณ 140lb watercolor paper Available โ€“ Inquire for details here: info@iamunlikeyou.com The number three has always been very prominent throughout time in creativity and beyond. It has become a reoccurring theme in my work as well. The backbone of story telling is having a beginning, middle and end. Three represents completion in many ways including the birth, life, death cycle and of course the trinity in many religious mythos. I wanted to unfurl the concept and explore what it means to overindulge in something. To be pulled to keep going back......

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The Onlooker Waits For Me to Bleed

The Onlooker Waits For Me to Bleed Charcoal, aged paper, type, collage with vintage photo on 18 x 24โ€ณ 140lb watercolor paper Original Available Here Type reads as follows: I know you wanted better for me, but that doesn't change what you get. I was set in motion of emotional disorder and expected to be orderly, but I split the difference. I made my way to the disorderly line where I met my friends, trauma and knife-play. Was this the better you wanted from me? Carving my future right above the knee....

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The Origins of a Parallel Revenge

The Origins of a Parallel Revenge Charcoal on 18 x 24โ€ณ 140lb watercolor paper Original Available Here 16 x 20โ€ณ Giclee Print on Premium Watercolor Paper Print Available Here The movement towards vengeance creates many straight lines. If you look around, you'll see the beginnings of obsession growing into malice and finally destruction. These lines are parallel yet all contain different variables....

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Your Promise of Betrayal Was Kept

Your Promise of Betrayal Was Kept Charcoal on 18 x 24โ€ณ 140lb watercolor paper Original Available Here 16 x 20โ€ณ Giclee Print on Premium Watercolor Paper Print Available Here A look of exhaustion and finality engulfs the human face in this smooth yet wrecking-ball of emotional destruction piece. What's left to salvage? When is it ethical to leave what's left to disappear to nothing?...

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The Holy Ascension of Spit

The Holy Ascension of Spit Charcoal, aged paper, handwriting on 18 x 24" 140lb watercolor paper Available A fragile and vulnerable entity is commanded to spit into the right hand of an unseen being in this chaotic, surreal scene. Handwriting scatters around the emission reading, "You had such promise. Make me into something worth destroying. Fill me up with your emptiness that I created. I like watching you dry slowly. The light in your eyes dims, spit by spit."...

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