Visual Art

Time Is A Maze

Exploring the ideas of life outside of our physical encounters and linear understanding of interacting with space-time.

Valence I-IV

We move through life with varying degrees of available energy. Valence is a four-panel, wall-sized meditation on human potential.

Echoes

A response to the digital world in various representations of a more visceral approach to canvas.

Nothing Here Can Kill You

Returning to the foundation of art as basic communication during a time when language of all forms is being deconstructed.

Standing Still In A Storm

A line without a guide is a constant force of the feeble attempt of nature to maintain order in and of itself.

Illustration

Drawing began as an obsession and turned into an almost meditative practice. This is a rotating selection of illustration work.

Books

Inventing The First Time Machine

This is an illustrated collection of questions regarding time and identity, with visual concepts constructed to form a narrative.

False Positive

Exploring the space between words and images, arranging scattered thoughts between photographs and found notebooks, this book is an exploration of dying media.

Out of Mind

One hundred copies of this book were printed, each further manipulated by hand in a large scale experiment in the idea of small differences and the concept of originality.

Off The Grid

A digital sketchbook constructed around the idea of exploring the concepts of inspiration, influence and appropriation in voice.

Illusions Etched In Anguish

My pissed-at-love submission to the 2012 Sketchbook Project, available in full at their digital library.

Loss Prevention

Part digital sketchbook, part expression and part coping mechanism, this collection of collage work was torn from a bad summer.

God Damn Juliet

A single edition collage tape & glue book from 2010 centered on capturing the heart break adult life can bring in the world.

Sound

At Risk EP

A drone-and-piano-driven, two-song, fifteen-minute sound project about time as a source of personal renewal.

asterisk

An ongoing collaborative umbrella for working with a variety of artists and musicians on sound-based projects.

Tetrahedron

Shrieks in dark rooms, gale force wind guitar sounds, and an echo of hope in a storm of despair.

The A.V. Club

Music videos would not be the proper term but it wouldn't be incorrect, either.

Graphic Design

Looking Forward, Giving Back

For four years I've been doing the identity and various print collateral for the annual First Exposures benefit auction.

Making A Mark

Logo design is a specific enjoyment of mine within the world of identity design and branding. This is a selection of marks in use.

Mobile App Design

While it's a new experience, designing for the mobile environment is a new and smaller standard for information consumption.

Branding Zinio

As Art Director and a senior designer, I oversaw the development and production of the brand style guidelines for Zinio in 2011.

Cover Songs

Designing record covers is certainly on my list for "Things I Like More Than Most," and these are a few examples.

First Exposures x 826 Valencia

These two San Francisco-based nonprofits collaborated over a joint summer program I assisted in teaching and designing for.

The New Fiend

A five-issue internet-based zine series about the politics of life, featuring original work as well as photography by Brenton Salo and select single issue contributions.

Kill The Precedent

Propaganda posters for left-leaning types and other design endeavors for the Pinterest feed of 21st century protest.

Photography

You Were Looking Away

Digital cameras seek to fix 'faults' in the photographic process that I use to explore our sense of reality.

About America

An ongoing series of film-based street photography taken on various travels around and through different parts of the USA.

Europe, After The Fall

Street photography from ten dark days travelling through Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Zurich.

Laundromat Zen

A series spanning a few years where I would photograph any empty self-serve I came across in San Francisco.

Occupy Everything

Over the course of the Occupy movement, I visited five camps and documented as much as possible along the way.

The Morocco Trip

Two series—one in Portra color slide film, the other in high-speed black and white—from two weeks navigating through Morocco.

The Dissonance Project

Using instant film and creative sources, this ongoing series is an examination of abstraction as individual pieces of a whole.

Across The Sea

A collection of film photographs from taking the month of April in 2012 to travel around the country of Japan.

A Heart Floats In The Bay

From mid-2009 through mid-2012, I lived in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco and took my digital camera everywhere.

Snapshots

An all-smartphone gallery featuring selections from years of having an iPhone around to use as a camera when necessary.