Behind The Curtain

This piece is a response to the 2013 documentary, "An Apology to Elephants". It explores the emotional capacity of elephants, their role in the natural environment, as well as their use and abuse in circuses and zoos throughout the last century. What a family sees in the Big Top may hide an ugly reality for these sensitive mammoths.

Sylvia Strike

Meet the spirit that haunts the bowling alley. Won't you join her league...?

Fish

A series of illustrations created for the children's book titled "Fish", written by H. Clement.

"Fish" finds himself on a journey of personal growth as his home is continually shifted; from one boy to another, from bedroom to basement, from koi pond to Lake Michigan.

The Little Match Girl

Cover art for the Han Christian Andersen's story, one of his shortest yet most poignant tales about the plight, hopes, and rewards of the poor.

Peter and Wendy

"Sometimes, though not always, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence. At such times it had been Wendy's custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing him in dear ways of her own invention, and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up, so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him."

From J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"

Poor Tootles

"Once Tootles began, which was not very often, he had a silly way of going on.
"As I can't be father," he said heavly, "I don't suppose, Michael, you would let me be baby?"
"No, I won't," Michael rapped out. He was already in his basket.
"As I can't be baby," Tootles said, getting heavier and heavier, do you think I could be a twin?"
"No, indeed," replied the twins; "it's awfuly difficult to be a twin."
"As I can't be anything important," said Tootles, "would any of you like to see me do a trick?"
"No," they all replied.
Then at last he stopped. "I hadn't really any hope."

From J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan".