Practice

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1:41 scale weathered shipping container

I’ve always enjoyed creative problem solving, especially when it come to using tools and techniques in the studio. I also think it’s important to create space to experiment and practice new ways of making. I’ve been wanting to practice my rust and chipping on something for a while. I’ve really only applied in to small isolated areas in my miniatures. I’ve also been looking to include some more saturated colors in my recent work. This shipping container was the perfect place to practice and to implement these techniques. Not to mention the real wold context that shipping containers belong to. I would imagine that many of the containers on the ships stranded in the waters of the middle east near Iran are corroding rapidly in the salty air. I’ve now printed out a few much smaller that I plan to use in the prototype version of The Last Operator board game. I’ll continue to practice my painting of them and maybe even include some numbers or graffiti.

Neo-Luddite Revelations

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The Last Operator III, The Sunsetting of the Human in the Loop (Neo-Luddite Revelations).

Miniature Landscape 2026

Back in 2006 when I was writing my graduate thesis about drone, surveillance and autonomous systems I knew I could see the future. The fact that technology would eventually change our existence in ways we could not predict was clear to me. Now 20 years later that video of the future is reality. Every current global conflict, from Ukraine to the Middle East and beyond, involves drones on all sides. Thousands of videos are being given to artificial intelligence to train its ability to be used to autonomously choose targets for devastating drone and missile strikes. We are living in the time of the ruination of our perception. Now is the time to embrace the values of the Neo-Luddites. The sunsetting of the human in the loop has begun, where we end up only time will tell.

The Long Winter

The Long Winter, The Fall of Technology I (detail image), 1:12 scale landscape, 4 × 4 × 8 inches 2025

What will precipitate the eventual systemic decline of technology? Can anything or anyone outlast or survive?

The Eternal Vision Series Expands

Drone 1001

Drone 1002

The Last Operator

The Last Operator II

Endless Ocean

Natures Inevitable Redemption

The Long Winter, The Fall of Technology I

1:12 scale landscape, 4 × 4 × 8 inches 2025

The Last Operator II

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The Last Operator II, posable 6in figure with accessories(AR goggles, drone controller, AK-47, laptop, Eternal Vision uniform, EMP grenades and propaganda poster).

The Last Operator II figure posed on vitrine stand with ammo crate.

Accessories detail view

natures inevitable redemption

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Natures Inevitable Redemption (Eternal Vision - Drone 1001)

Mixed media with 3d printing, 11in x 11in x 8in, 2024 (detail view)

I’ve never worked on a single piece for as long as I did on this one. When I started it in 2022 I had a crystal clear vision in my mind as to what I was making and how the final piece would look. Much to my surprise the more I worked, the more specific and articulate I got with materials the further I got from seeing the final piece come together. Each new detail set higher expectations for the next. The piece was certainly growing and evolving based on what it needed to become through my intuitions. However, once I started on the foliage, it was immediately evident to me that the end was near. My vision of a landscape that was truly overgrown and reclaimed by nature was finally coming together.

This piece depicts a moment in the Eternal Vision story in the far future. It speaks to the idea that all technology eventually becomes obsolete. The notion that nature will eventually prevail and reclaim all it once had. That decay and decomposition will always be beautiful. Nothing is free from the feedback loop of destruction and regrowth, not even technology.

Check back soon for a full gallery of images of the piece and a more elaborate explanation.

eternal vision drone 1002

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Eternal Vision Drone 1002 poster

Somewhere in a distant future, an omnipresent deterrence system reaches beyond the horizon. What was once sold on the utopian ideal of endless peace and security through total surveillance evolved into a system of total control. The presence of continuous observation forced whoever was left deep into hiding sometime long ago. Echoes of the present begin to emerge from the fragments.