Angst a la Mode

05/2026 — 13.5″ x 12″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

Sometimes the problem with having a brain is having to live inside it.

Worry has a remarkable ability to feed itself. One thought becomes another, which becomes another, until you’ve worried about the original problem, every possible consequence, and several disasters that haven’t happened yet. Why don’t we replace the whole troublesome mess with a few scoops of ice cream?

If you’re going to lose your mind, you might as well have dessert.

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Regret Au Gratin

05/2026 — 16″ x 12″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

Some regrets are foreseeable. That doesn’t necessarily stop us.

There are foods we know we’ll pay for later, but sometimes the promise of potatoes covered in bubbling cheese outweighs concern over future suffering.

Regret Au Gratin captures that unfortunate moment when pleasure gives way to consequence. Martin Luther himself attributed some of his intestinal troubles to the work of demons. Here they return to torment another poor soul who probably knew better than to eat all that cheese.

No regrets. Until there are.

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Gran Errores y Chicharrones

05/2026 — 19.5″ x 12″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

Everybody screws up. The real question is how long you’re going to keep thinking about it. We have a remarkable ability to replay our mistakes long after there’s anything useful left to learn from them. Reconsider every decision. Imagine better outcomes. Reopen old wounds. Repeat as necessary.

Gran Errores y Chicharrones offers another possibility: accept that you blew it, get yourself some chicharrones, and move on with your life.

The past will still be there when the bag is empty.

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Frantic Cries and Frito Pies

05/2026 — 12″ x 7.5″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

Some problems are bigger than snacks. There are moments when everything feels like too much. You cry. You scream. You assume the worst. Eventually you get hungry.

Frantic Cries and Frito Pies pairs overwhelming anguish with the modest consolation of Fritos preparados—a bag of corn chips loaded with cheese, chili, jalapeños, and whatever else might make things slightly more tolerable.

It probably won’t fix anything. But it is a Frito pie.

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Ontoy chamoy

05/2026 — 14″ x 12″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

“Ontoy” is a playful contraction of the Mexican Spanish ¿Dónde estoy?—“Where am I?” Unfortunately, knowing how to ask the question doesn’t guarantee an answer. Sometimes you know exactly what you are and still have no idea what you’re doing here.

This little gummi bear confronts some of life’s more persistent questions: Where am I? How did I get here? What am I for? And why am I covered in chamoy?

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Cooked Cabbage and Emotional Baggage

05/2026 — 11″ x 12″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$450

Everybody comes with baggage. Some of us just need a bigger suitcase.

We drag old heartbreaks, embarrassments, losses, grudges, fears, and assorted damage along with us, long after we’ve forgotten why we packed some of it in the first place.

Cooked Cabbage and Emotional Baggage pairs all that accumulated psychic freight with a nice warm bowl of cabbage, because sometimes a rhyme is reason enough to make a painting.

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Existential Malaise and Pizza Buffets

05/2026 — 30″ x 33″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$950

Gold rays. A halo. Cherubs. Symmetry. Instead of saints, we get an exhausted mother and her awful children. Not even pizza can cure their doldrums. One has to wonder what the evolutionary benefit there is in how we keep inventing small rituals—pizza, birthday candles, buffets, paper hats—to convince ourselves that today is different from every other Tuesday.

The painting eventually became the title piece for a collaborative exhibition with Anthony the Poet, where we paired existential dread with celebratory foods. Naturally, the opening featured an actual pizza buffet.

Pucheros y Huevos Rancheros (Pouty faces and Ranchers Eggs)

05/2026 — 37″ x 30″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$950

Eventually, somebody will ask you to pick a side. Even at breakfast.

Pucheros y Huevos Rancheros—“Pouty Faces and Rancher’s Eggs”—was named with the help of my collaborator Anthony the Poet of San Antonio.

In a city serious about its breakfast tacos, even salsa can inspire debate: red or green? Our unhappy diner would apparently prefer not to participate. She just wants a little heat on her huevos rancheros without turning breakfast into a declaration of allegiance.

Sometimes red sounds good. Sometimes green sounds better. This shouldn’t have to be a thing.

Buried guilt and barbacoa

05/2026 — 55″ x 48″

Acrylic on used fence pickets

$2400

Some things stay buried. That doesn’t mean they’re gone.

Buried Guilt and Barbacoa was one of four major works created for my collaborative exhibition with Anthony the Poet in San Antonio. The idea was Anthony’s contribution to our ongoing attempt to pair traditional and celebratory foods with the various anxieties of being alive.

Barbacoa gave us an unusually convenient metaphor. Something gets buried, left underground to smolder for hours, and eventually comes back to the surface.

Freud and the priest have their own theories about what else we’ve got cooking down there.