Arroyo Sand Paintings: A Ground for Intuition

“Aspen Veil”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (42 x 32 inches framed), 2024.

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Deep within Diablo Canyon, Aspen groves dissolve into the immense rock cliffs. Their forms are equalized by a relentless heat that dries everything to its essence, an unseen force binding the landscape together. Layers of oil and sand add a tactile depth to the painting’s surface, 

“Night Shade”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (42 x 32 inches framed), 2024-5.

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Paintings often emerge from uncommon experiences hidden in plain sight. One night, I woke and glanced at my screened-in patio, only to see a houseplant come alive in the moonlight. The light filtered through the screen, casting delicate vein patterns across its leaves like a hid

“Shadow Circuit”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (42 x 32 inches framed), 2024.

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Shadow Circuit is a mosaic of fragmented patterns and shifting colors that form a labyrinth echoing the disorienting pull of technology’s shadow. Fusing our ancient relationship with light and dark to the binary language of modernity, the surface is alive with energy. It’s as if 

“El Porvenir”, oil and sand on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (48.75 x 36.75 inches framed), 2025.

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El Porvenir, Spanish for "the future," is both a personal recollection and a foreshadowing of change, echoing my time in Montezuma, New Mexico, a landscape now scarred by the state's largest wildfire. This painting captures the profound solitude of being deep in the woods, w

“The Dawn Ahead”, oil and sand on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (49.5 x 37.5 inches framed), 2024-5.

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The Dawn Ahead is composed of a grid of compartmentalized vignettes. Forged from many different drawings, these individual images are merged into a unified composition, forcing opposite ideas and forms to coexist. This ever-shifting piece interprets the duality of an ever-c

“True Grit”, oil and sand on canvas, 36 x 24 inches (37.5 x 25.5 inches framed), 2024.

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In the foreground, two desert wanderers emerge within a rocky and mysterious terrain. The figures are depicted as one carrying another, an evocative visual that brings to mind the rare and deeply symbolic Hopi Katsina pairing: the Blind Mudhead (Koyemsi) and Disabled Tuhave Katsin