Welcome to the online home of Zero Point Mechanic.
  • My latest adventuring has been writing and recording The Last Movie, the new album by Rusted Rabbit. Digital versions of the songs are available on Band Camp. There will be a vinyl LP coming out in the future that will have a visual companion (which will be RocketBox No. 2). Stay tuned!

  • If you're here to look at pictures of my newer sculptures, you can do that in the Sculpture Gallery. Each image in the Gallery links to a page showing the creation of the piece and/or more photos. Some of those images link out to other areas of the site. Blue titles link to posts on my blog.
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  • Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, much of my artistic energy has gone into 2D work and music. Over the summer of 2020 we moved from South Carolina to Illinois, and it was difficult to find the time to do much other than draw a picture here or there in the cracks between packing, selling one home and buying another, moving, starting new jobs, etc. My new workspace is a huge improvement (part of a barn instead of part of a garage), and I'm looking forward to getting some traction and making more solid things again soon.
 
  • My work is for sale directly from me here. If you're interested in a commission, see this page.
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  • If you want to go down into rabbit holes, I recommend you start in the Sketchbook and start clicking. This website is my own personal, clickable warren of ideas, places, memories, and mythology. You're welcome to explore it, but don't ask me to explain it. It will be a work in progress until it's not.

  • ​There is a mall amount of miscellaneous merchandise (stickers, etc.) available here.  

  • Finally, please feel welcome to leave a comment in the Guestbook if you'd like. Thanks for visiting!

About me

Much of my work revolves around my personal challenges with the meaning of memories. My earlier sculptural work struggled with making tangible the slippery connection between the past and the present, combining and recombining worn out, faded, and rusted pieces of my material life – some meaningful and some not -- into new objects with a present and a future.  For me, those pieces are machines that transform memories into something that I can see and touch. Over the past year I have been working to re-teach myself how to draw so that I can pull threads from the wider, persistent background world that is lurking "out there."

I am a native Midwesterner with no formal training in art or metalwork. I moved to Columbia, South Carolina, several years ago and was fortunate to have some success there with my scrap sculpture. I had a solo show at Tapp’s Arts Center in Columbia in the summer of 2017 and another in the fall of 2019, participated in ArtFields 2018 and 2019, and was nominated for a Jasper Artist of the Year Award in 2018.  I now live in Illinois and do my work in a half of a barn that I share with many mice, armed with a welder, some basic hand tools, and lots of leftovers. I am particularly interested in exploring the tensions between new and old, natural and mechanical, and alive and dead.

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Photo by Ambyr Goff.