Arroyo Sand Paintings: A Ground for Intuition

“Aspen Veil”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, 2025.

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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 Arroyo sand add a tactile depth to the painting’s surface, evoking the canyon's raw textures while sugg

“Night Shade”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (42 x 32 inches framed), 2025.

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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 hidden languag

“Shadow Circuit”, oil and sand on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, 2025.

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Shadow Circuit is a mosaic of fragmented patterns and shifting colors, echoing the disorienting pull of technology’s shadow. Fusing our ancient relationship with light and dark to the binary language of modern tech, the surface is alive with energy. It’s as if Ahriman has slipped into the circuits, shaping our p

“El Porvenir”, oil and sand on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 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, with hidden watering holes and primordia

“The Dawn Ahead”, oil and sand on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2025.

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The Dawn Ahead is composed of a grid of compartmentalized vignettes. Inspired by various 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 a constantly evolving world, capturing the uncertainty 

“True Grit”, oil and sand on canvas, 36 x 24 inches, 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 Katsina. Their legend recounts enduring hardship through un