A visual studio
A place of visual thinking
—artwork and imagery shaped by faith and formation.
See holds visual work created over time.
I didn’t begin by thinking of this as art. These images emerged alongside study, contemplation, and formation—often as a way of seeing what words couldn’t yet hold.
As the idea of Journeys took shape, it became clear that this work belonged here—not organized by style or medium, but by season.
Each phase reflects the questions that were alive at the time.
First Season – the Meta-Narrative
The First Season
The Meta-Narrative
It was a formative season.
I entered carrying spiritual injury I did not yet have language for. Learning to see the larger story became part of the healing.
In the early stages of seminary, through deeper engagement with Scripture as a coherent narrative—and shaped by Neo-Anabaptist traditions—I encountered not just a different story, but a way of evaluating the stories I had inherited.
I learned to locate individual texts within their wider context.
And that context matters.
That doctrines, experiences, and convictions belong within a broader arc—and that they must be questioned when they distort that arc.
Learning to process faith this way—alongside the traumas embedded within it—did not cost me my faith.
It saved it.
These were some of the images that were created during this season and the link to how the story came together. See the whole story
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A Season of Horror: ICE & Resistance
In the winter of 2025–26, Minnesota became the epicenter of one of the most consequential crises in recent American history—the armed occupation of Minnesota by ICE. The fear. The violence brought by an invasion force in Trump’s attempt to force Minnesota to its knees and to his will.
Three thousand ICE agents were deployed to hunt “violent immigrant criminals” in a state where immigrants accounted for roughly four percent of violent crime—approximately fifty cases per month already being addressed by local law enforcement. The math didn’t work. The prey was statistically nonexistent. So the target changed—from specific criminals to entire communities based on appearance alone. This was not law enforcement. ICE is not a law enforcement entity—it is a federal civil immigration agency operating outside constitutional protections that bind police. What occurred was occupation: raids without warrants, detentions without probable cause, force without accountability.
The surge ignited sustained protest and legal challenges—especially after federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, during confrontations that shocked communities and drew national outrage. ICE & Resistance is the visual and narrative record of a winter shaped by federal force and popular defiance—where streets, cameras, and community voices documented a state at odds with its government’s use of power.
Here are the images and stories developed along the way.
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