Beam Me Up Beach explores the impulse to escape physically, psychologically, and dimensionally. Drawing from science fiction and cosmological space, the works compress layers of color and form to create environments where time appears stalled, and perception becomes unstable. The paintings situate the viewer between overlapping dimensions, evoking a sense of suspendedness between galaxies and interior states of consciousness. The title’s wordplay frames the series as an abstracted attempt to leave the body behind and exist elsewhere, if only briefly.
inherently meddlesome, i traipse toward the light, 2022
it is your eyes too close together that feed my imagination? i taste what you see in small increments, 2022
glitch in the matrix, 2022
great. red. spot, 2022
i’m not from here, 2022
ghost on mars, 2022
a parallel universe is supplemental affection, 2022
when i'm in my head, you're there too. i’m a wild fungus, and if you were see-through, i would find root rot in the place of your heart, 2022
333, 2022
sneaky snake, 2023
orbit around my mouth, 2023
what happens next? 2022
something has gone wrong. either way, i like it. probably too much. similar to the way i like falling asleep from anesthesia, 2022
girl on girl. or me just hugging my subconscious, 2022
i’ll make it spooky if you want it like that, 2022
foggy remnants of dreams that make you feel lonely all-day, 2022
form study, 2022
nothing tugs me back down. my body feels mushy and weightless. i watch slivers of myself dancing away, so i wave them goodbye, 2022
romantic equilibrium, 2023
planet panic, 2023
i’m following the script we composed in the dark. indifferent. clumsy, 2022
hunting high and low, 2022
saying so little leaves an itch on the tongue, 2023
stepping stones to the other side, 2023
is this safe to eat? 2022
i led you to my loneliness, but then it felt overcrowded. i didn't know how to ask you to leave, so I dipped instead, 2023
the ride in the hearse was rough and bumpy. do they have no respect for the dead? just because i’m a corpse, they think i can’t feel anything. well, i shouldn’t feel anything, but they could have been considerate in case i did, 2023
i am nowhere to go, 2023
phosphene, 2023
spook lands, 2023
phlogiston, 2023
somewhere somewhere, 2023
superstitions are based on statistics, 2023
pillars of creation, 2023
girl on girl. or me just hugging my subconscious, 2024
soft landing, 2023
is it ever big enough? 2024
pressure absence, 2024
it's a reward to lose your mind in solitude, 2022
a man’s thirst for existence becomes an unseen fortune, 2023
if you had invited me, i would have declined, and it would definitely be out of spite. i punish myself. i hide. but it feels better to want you when i'm alone. so much better, 2022
will you wake to the sound? 2024
the light burns, but i can't avert my eyes. am i what you're looking for, or will you take anyone? it doesn't matter anyway, 2022
was i upside down or inside out? 2023
born from a spring beyond the gaps in the trees, 2023