Read My Lips

Intimate Writings: A Living Autobiography

A raw, unflinching memoir spanning the decade following a debilitating stroke in 2017. Chronicles the pivot from studio painting to time-based media and writing, exploring vulnerability, recovery, and the reconstruction of identity through art.

The Poisoned Pen

More Fine Art, Love, REBT and Disappointment. Collected essays bridging fine art practice with cognitive behavioral theory. Theoretically rigorous yet accessible critiques of contemporary culture through the lens of psychological health.

What Good Can I Make Of This?

My Experience of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. Examines post-stroke recovery through the ABC Model of REBT. Combining HDR photography with cognitive restructuring exercises for turning adversity into creative fuel.

Beautiful Torture: The Cult of Yoga

Like Any Cult It's Based On Abuse. The complete memoir. Unedited journals from Yashodara Ashram Kootney Bay B.C.

The Duchy of Jerald

Fine Art, Love, REBT and Disappointment. Collected essays bridging fine art practice with cognitive behavioral theory.

Cityscape

Growing Up on the streets of Calgary. Pictorial Essays and Social Comment. "The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno."

The Road Home

A visual journey through landscapes and memory. Photographic essays exploring the concept of home, belonging, and the paths that lead us back to ourselves. A meditation on place, displacement, and the geography of the heart.

The Coffee Table

Digital art based on observations taken from coffee shops. A visual exploration of urban social spaces, capturing the essence of contemporary café culture through digital media and candid observation.

Muse the Narcissists Stare

A compelling exploration of narcissistic dynamics through art and observation. A visual and textual meditation on identity, perception, and the masks we wear.

Grace Gardens

A visual meditation on cultivated beauty and natural grace. Photographic studies exploring the intersection of human design and organic growth, where structured gardens meet wild flourishing in moments of quiet transcendence.

Video experiments and learning in progress using After Effects and Premiere Pro. A flipbook collection of motion art experiments exploring kinetic typography, compositing, and time-based media.