Home Sign

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

Having been kicked out of a Syrian refugee camp on a tiny island of Lesvos by a crazy German Greek who abused his young female volunteers and didn’t appreciate me standing up for them, I found myself far from home...Read More

Saint Paul

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

This one is for Abouna Paul Girguis and his Egyptian Coptic congregation. A day or so before I met the Copts volunteering in refugee camps in Athens, I spent the day with a Pakistani torture victim whose body was riddled...Read More

Beast

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

I don’t want to remember Jamal Khashoggi this way, a giant brown recluse electricuting his innocent face, a Saudi Arabian sword at his neck, but it was all I saw for months after his murder. It symbolized everything the Trump...Read More

2020

Posted on August 10, 2021 by eric

I started this early in 2020, back before things became 2020’s new version of intense, and then paused. Inexplicably, I couldn't understand the piece anymore, and therefore couldn’t work on it. I felt like the piece had a life of...Read More

Anti-racism is Patriotic

Posted on August 7, 2021September 2, 2021 by eric

A simple protest sign to remind people that the far right has not co-opted the concept of patriotism (though, noteworthy, I don’t really prescribe to the notion of liking or holding in higher esteem any one country over another). Still,...Read More

Burnt Jewelry Box

Posted on August 3, 2021September 2, 2021 by eric

Using a fractal art burner and donated/repurposed cigar boxes, I created these jewelry boxes as thank you gifts for anyone who donated $40 to Una Vida (www.una-vida.org) in the Spring of 2021. Offer still stands, just let me know you...Read More