Amor Fati LXXI {Edmonton} (acrylic and mixed media on canvas)

Amor Fati LXXI {Edmonton}

Amor Fati LIX {Limit Experiences} (acrylic and mixed media on canvas)

Amor Fati LIX {Limit Experiences}

Amor Fati XXVI {Nordic Promises} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XXVI {Nordic Promises}

Amor Fati XVI {Telos} (acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XVI {Telos}

Amor Fati XIII

Amor Fati XIII

Another of the Amor Fati series that I'm not at all happy with. However, these failed attempts are valuable for working through issues of space, color, and line. Lessons learned.

Amor Fati XII {Heliocentrism} (Acrylic and Mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XII {Heliocentrism}

Amor Fati XI {I is Another} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XI {I is Another}

This is one of the earliest pieces in the Amor Fati series and one of the first works that I was really happy about. It combines my love of found objects, maps, flags, and art history, all of which I draw from visually to create these works. 

Amor Fati X (Mixed media and acrylic on cardboard)

Amor Fati X

I'm not at all happy with this part of the Amor Fati series. The colors are all wrong and I didn't have any sort of conceptual or design unity in mind while making; it's just kind of thrown together. That said, there are elements that I like. I wish I would have put those two Polaroids of Louisville industrial architecture to better use. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of this piece, part of the goal of the Amor Fati series is to embrace all the attempts as part of a larger narrative that is given meaning not despite its failure but because of it and how it creates something new.

Amor Fati VI {Can anything good come out of Nazareth?} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati VI {Can anything good come out of Nazareth?}

Amor Fati II {Nietzsche is Dead} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati II {Nietzsche is Dead}

Dread and death meet the affirmation of the eternal return. Cleveland also makes an appearance.