Project Portfolio

A Series On Cosmology Art + Poetry Commissions Available

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Commissions for charity:

Overview here • (digital) character art pricing here

Don’t need art but still want to donate?

Check out this organization fighting the Gaza famine, and this organization working to expand global healthcare access

Projects by tag:

#Art Portfolio 1 (before fall 2025)

—> #Science and Ourselves (6 part multimedia series exploring how we can explore discover ourselves through scientific metaphor)

#Writing Portfolio 1 (before fall 2025)

—> #Options for the End (4-part poem series inspired by ways the universe could end)

#A Series On Cosmology (12-part scrollable animated series on the evolution of the universe, accompanied by Sleeping At Last’s music)

#Commission

#Art Portfolio 2 (after fall 2025)

#Writing Portfolio 2 (after fall 2025)

#As I Know It

#Flowers

—>#sold and #unsold

Misc. tags:

Art (title, medium, style)—> Oil, acrylic, with medium, watercolor, collage, digital art, traditional painting, etc

Writing (title, type)—> Poem, prose poem, short story, prose, essay, etc

Video

Commissions

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A still from this animation. Walking DRP, Procreate Dreams

It's remarkable how much of our human existence depends on our access to reliable information. The industries of education, social media, and the news all serve to teach.

Many have their gripes with the social information landscape, but without it, where would a farmer learn how to prepare for an upcoming storm? Where would a couple go to learn about safe intimacy practices? How would a political candidate be held accountable, without some news source shedding light on their deeds? Where would a parent learn how to prevent bullying at their children's school?

The image above is a still from an animation I made in partnership with DRP radio, illustrating their process. They partner with radio stations in rural, developing regions around the world to help grow local information landscapes-listening to community issues, training journalists, broadcasting information to the region, and supporting local changemaking initiatives. You can see and read about some of their tangible impacts at https://www.developingradiopartners.org/

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Heat Lightning

A cloud of wasps and mayflies

Circle my head

As my down boils in the burrow—

Cornered hares struck by

Heat lightning.

I, an animal of prey and anger and insignificant fear,

Will be crushed

Under the feet of a blazing-orange

Predator,

A loveless pack leader on his way

To a fenced-in and oily oasis.

My blood spreads under frozen nails and

Wolfteeth

As he continues on his way,

Allowing the both of us to

Burn.

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Colors

My mind glitters of amethyst,

But the heart dreams in gold.

Wonder, I wonder,

What’s the color of my soul?

The right eye’s sapphire, and

Left’s ruby ‘round the hole.

But if eyes are the window,

What’s the heart know of my soul?

With never a thought a frequency

Like another hue of the whole,

Is it white light or black dye

Painting the spectra of my soul?

Or is the body a rock,

Though not one of diamond or coal?

Through altered and orderly carbon,

Perhaps, does a sparkle become of my soul?

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Heliotrope (Ode to Helios)

I want to drown in the amber sunlight and

Honeyed chamomile dripping down your cheek

During gentle, chrysanthemum mornings,

After snowmelt gives way to crocuses and

The stars stop feeling lonely.

I want sweet pancakes and

Sweeter lemonade while you laugh as

Citrusfire Sundogs lick you with

Halos; gloried by nature and zodiacal light

Hours before the world needs you in it.

I want our phones off and

My record player on, spinning yellowed

Songs I only begin to understand as

Your sunflower face begins to whistle—

An Ode of Helios.

I want to grow a marigoldenrod bouquet.

Selfish dandelion, sunstruck girl,

Silently I whisper,

I want it to stay. God,

I want it all to stay.

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“Emergent/Materialism”, Multimedia painting on accordioned masonite, 20x21.5

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Cover version (used for the WORDS poetry journal)

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Assorted doodles (for WORDS)

Procreate

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Coloring pages - Procreate

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I’ve always been bad at faces, so

you make me feel a gambler

as I keep betting on strangers,

hoping one of ‘em’s you.

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Ipomoea pandurata (Wild Potato Vine)

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aester)

Conoclinium coelestinum (Mist Flower)

Nigella damascena (Love-In-A-Mist)

Bouquet

Watercolor

(Not for sale)

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JGBS merch collection

Digital (vector via Adobe Fresco)

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Bellis perennis (common daisy)

A symbol of peace

Selling it for $8 (+shipping)

100% of the profit goes to charity.

Hope is not a foolish thing.

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—BUST DRAWING PRICING—

$15 for bust lineart • $20 for bust flat • $30 for bust render

$25 for body lineart • $30 for body flat • $45 for body render

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As I Know It (Xinfinity) logo

Digital (Procreate)

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“Mercy Scholars sweatshirt”

Digital (Procreate)