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i made a short piece called the somatic collapse. it's basically a semi-documentary-style look at ordinary people in super normal settings, but with a catch: the psychological stress they're hiding is physically mutating their skin. expect a lot of quiet tension, claustrophobic macro shots, and…

The Taxman is a short, claustrophobic cyberpunk nightmare about a futuristic DJ‑bureaucrat who doesn’t just collect money. He collects attention, time, and work. He sits at a glowing holographic console, surrounded by cyan and magenta light, counting and extracting value from everyone plugged into his…

First render of a project i'm calling ascension in ash and gold. it follows a lonely, cloaked figure wandering through a massive brutalist wasteland who ends up undergoing a pretty terrifying physical metamorphosis. their body basically fractures, leaks liquid gold, and dissolves into the environment.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the internet and its grip on our attention, our culture, and our daily family rituals. Then I look at what happens when kids open YouTube. A single, seemingly harmless video quickly devolves into a neon-colored slip-and-slide of…

I couldn't help but nod along as I was reading David Brooks’ recent piece about the decline of the novel. I'm from a generation that still remembers when new books by Philip Roth or Toni Morrison were cultural tremors, sending shockwaves of reviews and arguments…