The Internship Book and Process Show
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In March of 2018, I had the pleasure of showing my BFA Thesis Exhibition to the public of Xavier University. As the culmination of over 4 years of personal artistic progress, and of over 8 years of story development, I self-published my comic book The Internship as my final project of my undergrad career. 

The entirety of the final 50 page book was entirely written, illustrated, and executed by myself.
Inspired by my childhood daydreams, the universe of the Internship, of Mod-men and WindoSIL, was a concept that I found myself consistently returning to throughout my teenage years, and that I figured I should pursue more actively once it became clear that I was going to continue with an art career. 

The Internship as a book was backed up by a long series of work done in varied printmaking methods, multimedia illustrations, and meticulously kept sketchbooks. The grouping of that work with the final book created a fully formed process show that illustrated the mulling over and realization of the internal concept.
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It was the most long-term project I've ever undertaken. 

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Zine-work

Since a week-long course on book alteration I had the opportunity to take in the summer of 2016, I have gradually started becoming more and more interested in Book Arts.
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Most of the book-based work I've made have been small zine works.
Most are one-off, individual works that are intensively designed and pored over until I was entirely satisfied with their craft. Some are hand-bound, fully hand-printed books.
Some are a combination of found objects and text.
​ All of them deal with people or events of significance from my own daily life--they are objects of appreciation for the mundane.
*These small zine works are an ongoing series*