Story-driven illustration focused on mood, character, and nuance
A Raisin In The Sun A theatrical poster inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play A Raisin in the Sun. Combining collage, bold graphic shapes, and layered interiors, the design reflects the hopes, struggles, and aspirations of the Younger family while exploring themes of home, identity, opportunity, and the pursuit of a better future.
Tom Waits: An Audience of Crows: A mixed-media portrait of Tom Waits created with hand-painted collage, ink, acrylic textures, and digital finishing. Surrounded by crows, torn newspapers, cigarette stubs, and urban debris, Waits sits quietly on a shipping crate, reflecting the resilience, poetry, and humanity found among society's overlooked and discarded. The illustration explores themes of aging, isolation, memory, and the quiet dignity of outsiders.
Muscadine
Cover illustration for a coming-of-age novel about friendship, belonging, and survival at a reform boarding school in rural North Carolina.
Tender Digital Dialogues
A quiet moment between an elderly woman and her AI companion explores themes of connection, aging, and the future of human relationships in a technological world.
The Better To Eat You With:
A narrative illustration inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, capturing the terrifying moment before the wolf enters through dramatic light, shadow, and perspective.
Rapunzel's Reckoning
A contemporary interpretation of the pivotal moment in the Rapunzel story when the witch cuts away her legendary hair. The image explores themes of loss, identity, and power, transforming a familiar fairy tale into a meditation on forced change and the severing of what once defined us.
Shorn After the witch cuts Rapunzel's legendary hair, the severed braids become a powerful symbol of betrayal, isolation, and the loss of freedom.
The Fall
The moment the prince is cast from Rapunzel's tower and plunges toward the thorn bushes below. Suspended between escape and catastrophe, the image explores fate, sacrifice, and the instant when a single event irrevocably changes the course of a life.
Blinded
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel, the illustration depicts the prince after his fall into the thorn bushes that leave him blind, marking the beginning of his long journey toward redemption and reunion.
The Yellow Wallpaper
A cover illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Through layered collage, fragmented forms, and peeling surfaces, the image explores themes of isolation, mental health, identity, and the gradual dissolution of self.
Convicted
Exploring the emotional weight of imprisonment, using light, shadow, and texture to evoke isolation, judgment, and quiet resignation.
Witch's Perch Perched high among autumn branches, a witch keeps watch over the enchanted forest below in this illustration inspired by Jorinda and Joringel.
Holiday Break: A young shopper pauses in a café overlooking a glowing winter city, reflecting on the quiet moments hidden beneath the rush of the holiday season.
The Wolf's Nap
After devouring Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, the wolf settles in for a very satisfied nap.
Reckless Raccoons Two mischievous raccoons transform a shopping cart into a runaway adventure, racing headlong into trouble. Created in ink, the illustration celebrates childhood imagination, humor, and the irresistible appeal of doing something you probably shouldn't.
Nomadic: Explores the spirit of exploration through an anthropomorphic traveler and a well-worn camper van. Created in colored ink, the piece reflects themes of freedom, self-discovery, and the pull of the open road.
What BIG Teeth you have
Little Red begins to suspect something is wrong with Grandma during their unforgettable visit.
Passport: Passport celebrates the restless spirit of exploration through a traveler poised between destinations. Created in colored ink, the illustration reflects themes of curiosity, independence, and the anticipation of what lies beyond the next horizon.
