Visual Art – Cincinnati
I am completely enamored by traditional Japanese art prints of the ukiyo-e era and all things macabre. The formal qualities, imagery, and content of traditional Japanese woodblock prints and art aesthetics compiled with the Ero Guro Nansensu artistic movement (meaning erotic, gruesome, nonsense) that gained popularity in circa 1930’s Japan have greatly peaked my interests. Blending this intense admiration with my proclivity for horror, the macabre, and art making, I create outlandish scenes featuring bizarre details and grotesque, usually mutilated, characters in surreal technicolor.