"Ecce Mater Tua"

Oil painting on wood
24 x 36 inches

A painting featuring my wife and daughter, exploring the aesthetics of the Madonna and Child paintings of the renaissance and translating them to the contemporary era.

"Meditations 002"
Oil paint on paper
11 x 17 inches

The dawning of a connected world has made us vulnerable by way of open access to our eyes and ears around the clock. Our empathy has been weaponized, and we have been subjugated to tear down the fence of Chesterton out of good will, not knowing the hell it has forestalled.

Who among us bears the responsibility, single-handedly, blood on hand? Are we not just a school of fish, complicit only in ebbing and flowing at the behest of the current? What force, then, manipulates the drift? And, like the fish, is it by careless involuntary provocation? Or intent?

"Sacrum" (2022)
Oil painting on wood
24 x 24 inches

"Sacrvm" in Latin translates to "sacred thing" or "holy place". When I get out of my personal cave and outside, and fully immerse myself in the beauty of nature, it puts all of the insignificant problems that we let dominate the prime real estate of our minds into perspective. I've always been especially struck by the beauty of the sky. Therapy for me is lying down in the grass and watching the clouds go by.

"IANVS DEFENSOR ROMAE" (2024)
Oil painting on wood
24 x 36 inches

Janus (IANVS in Latin) was the Roman god of gateways, transitions, time, and beginnings. That's why we named the month of January after him. He had two faces, one facing forward, and one facing back. The gates of the Roman temple of Janus, symbolically, were open during times of war, and closed during times of peace.

One story tells of Janus defending Rome from an invasion by the Sabines. Janus uses his divine powers to cause a flood from a hot spring, driving away the infiltrators.

The gates of Janus will not open on behalf of antagonistic foreign provocateurs who would attempt to pull Rome into unnecessary war.

As the United States once again finds itself being drawn into a foreign conflict that is completely irrelevant to our own affairs, we must demand that our leaders remain fully committed to (and only to) their constituents here in our own country by remaining completely uninvolved. Our blood and tax dollars are desperately needed domestically to solve the myriad issues we face here on our own soil. We cannot afford to fight on behalf of foreign nations. Let them resolve their own conflicts. Demand NO FOREIGN WARS from your congressional representatives.