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11” x 14”
The emblematic Toh bird symbolizes my new beginning in a foreign land. Just as the Toh leaves its cavernous sinkhole home to explore the wide jungle, I left the cavernous walls of a 6x9 cell. I am shedding the heartless value system imposed on me and moving into a new, lighter existence. Although the Toh is flying free, the weight of its past is ever-present.
16” x 20” and 11” x 14” sold as a set of 2
Medium: Acrylic on panel and canvas
The true inspiration behind this piece is life in today's world and all the trials and tribulations that other people are going through I wish for a little reprieve and hope the world can be surrounded by peace at some point.
18” x 24”
Medium: Pencil and acrylic paint
If my heart could speak, it would speak of what remains after the fire.
The reaching hand stands in the aftermath... not as rescue, but as resolve. Destruction changes us, but it does not remove our power to shape what comes next.
Rebuilding is a choice.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
The emblematic Toh bird symbolizes my new beginning in a foreign land. Just as the Toh leaves its cavernous sinkhole home to explore the wide jungle, I left the cavernous walls of a 6x9 cell. I am shedding the heartless value system imposed on me and moving into a new, lighter existence. Although the Toh is flying free, the weight of its past is ever-present.
11” x 14”
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
My metaphorical heart - and, I believe, every human heart - is filled with layer upon layer of grief and love and loss and joy. I'm not always able to access complexity in the moment when yet another tragedy strikes; the good is obscured, invisible, absent from my perception, while the world both inside and out seems full of nearly unbearable emotions and experiences. In those times - in these times, in this harrowing start to 2026 - it feels like my heart has lost every language but that of the blood, and it spills, it pours without end, without mercy.
(Title - prefaced by text in painting - from Psalm 94.)
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
I find myself thinking about the lack of love I get from those who I did the most for. How I was left to do this time on my own. How my kids' mom cheated and lied and stole from me. How I barely hear from my children. How I miss my life and the stitches represent the healing since I'm getting better and almost home.
16” x 20”
Medium: Pencil, ink, gel pens, acrylic, colored pencils
We all have choices in life and we all struggle in our own ways. It's how we choose to cope with it. Everything happens for a reason.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic paint with varnished top coat
I identify with animals better than I do with humans. So, I thought about how I see myself. For this painting, "Happy as a Frog on a Log," frogs for the most part are solitary animals as am I. They are amphibious and are content spending their time in the woods or forest. I have never seen a frog smile before so I made one do just that.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
When I first began this journey, my tunnel was dark with no light appearing. With time and help from positive programming, the darkness began to grow light. The closer I get to release I am able to see the opening and a new day. No matter how dark the tunnel may seem, there's always the opening bringing new light. And so I will persevere.
16” x 20”
From prison I see nothing good. I see no joy, love, happiness and no hope. I see no kindness, no hope of having a future or finding love or getting back the life taken from me. I see only pain, suffering, struggle and no matter how good I am or how much I want to make the world better I will never be allowed to help people, to find love or have a family or go to live free and be happy. I have tried to find hope but it doesn't exist and it is clear that only death can give me and my kids hope and happiness.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
If my heart could speak, what would it say? My heart would say, "Help!" I have grown from a boy to a man with chains on my neck and hands. It would say help because through everything it's trying to understand God's plan. My heart would say help because it's been away from my loved ones so long and no, I'm not talking about visits because I've had those. Not the gaping space that stands between us as I view them from afar.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
Being away from my 2 year old son, locked in prison. My girlfriend was pregnant when I got sent here. My new baby is 2 months old now, she's a daughter. I try to evolve on a daily basis to be the best father to my kids when I'm released!
16” x 20”
Medium: Pencil on Strathmore 500 series paper with a plate finish
"Mako sica" in the Dakota language means"forgotten/abandoned" which is what motivated me to do the portrait of Ohiye'Sa (Charles A. Eastman,) 1858-1939, from Redwood Falls, Minnesota Territory, an American physician, writer, social reformer. One of the first Native Americans to be certified in Western medicine, and played a huge part in 32 chapters of the YMCA/Boy Scouts of America. How can someone who touched so many lives be so easily forgotten? To bring this piece to life with a mere pencil forces me to believe we can once again live in a world without judgement/abandonment. The value places in the drawing is the value I hope can again be placed in those who have been forgotten. Never Forget!
16” x 20”
Medium: Pencil, colored pencil, paint, chalk, watercolor, ink
I wanted this piece to show that being born innocent without knowing what evil is. After getting older and as you start making life choices and how they lead down the wrong path. I wanted people to have that A-HA moment when they see my emotions on paper, after being suppressed for years by feeling alone and too ashamed to realize there was others like me. The poem is explaining my journey after defeating my demons, after a life full of pain. And finding the feeling of wanting to go home after finding a piece of my innocence and making peace with my pain.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
My inspiration for this piece is all the hurt and trials I have gone through.
16” x 20”
Medium: Watercolor, oil pastels, acrylic
It started off as an idea of what I would like my shoe closet to look like and then I ran out of time to create something for the art show because of Stillwater shut down. So I was inspired to step up upon these circumstances and finish strong.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
In my drawing I have a ship which is in a storm and going through it to a calm side. I have a helm around the ship with time inside of the helm. On top of the helm, there is a silhouette of my family. To explain the picture is this: The ship is myself and life, the storm is me being in prison and facing a difficult time in my life. The helm around the ship is me steering myself through the storm. The time inside the helm represents patience and perseverance for me to get through the hard time that I'm facing through the storm. The silhouette represents my family who I can't see clearly while going through the storm. When the storm is gone I will be able to share in the calm with my family.
16” x 20”
Medium: Acrylic
My heart would say that I've been searching all my life for something I can't see. It's only something I can feel within. It makes me wonder as though this feeling isn't originally my own, but that of my ancestors. As if a gift was passed down to me but without knowing what it is, it seemed more of a curse and I used it as such. Only now am I starting to finally see little by little.
16” x 20”
Medium: Graphite and colored pencil
My home town is surrounded by 3 reservations. So many Native American women and girls go missing or end up dead with little news coverage. So this case, this logo speaks to me but I wanted to bring it to life.
16” x 20”
Medium: Colored pencil on Bristol paper
As I sit in this cage, I always view birds as free, but I didn't want to do an eagle or hawk. I wanted to catch the viewer's eye, and a kingfisher caught my eye with its bright colors. I feel free and viewed.
11” x 14”
We all take in other's pain