American Memoryworks

I create work about how we remember America not as it was, but as it lives inside us. 

My mixed-media collages pull from the cultural fragments we inherit: vintage ads, typography, logos, Western archetypes, comic book and pulp imagery, roadside ephemera, and the visual language of American popular culture. I layer these elements the way memory feels — imperfect, emotional, and reassembled through time. The result is a kind of modern artifact: part myth, part memory, part cultural reconstruction, part dream of what can be.

Growing up, I absorbed these images all around me. They became the background texture of identity — peripheral, often unnoticed, yet deeply formative — pieces of nostalgia, cultural mythology, and imagination woven into something larger than any single source. That same process guides my work today. Each piece begins with something familiar, then becomes unfamiliar again as layers build and meanings collide.

Each work is conceived as a complete object, not simply an image on a surface. Imagery wraps the edges and recedes out of sight, echoing the way memory extends beyond what we consciously see. A glossy resin coating reflects how we often view our history and mythology through a polished sheen, even as the imagery beneath remains weathered and imperfect. Areas left rough, obscured, or unseen speak to the fading, fragmentary edges of cultural memory — still present, even when no longer visible.

My background in graphic design shapes the precision and structure of the work, while hand-finished textures, wear, and imperfections push it into the realm of lived-in history. The tension between order and erosion mirrors the way memory, culture, and identity continually rewrite one another.

Ultimately, my work isn’t about the past itself — it’s about how we carry the past. These pieces invite viewers to find fragments of their own story inside the imagery, and to consider the myths and memories that have shaped who we are.