Rebus

The Rebus Project is an ongoing artistic endeavor consisting of charcoal drawings and motion graphic videos featuring rebus-style puzzles. Engaging in the practice of generating and sketching these puzzles serves as a cathartic process, providing a means to grapple with and assimilate the world that envelops us. Language, iconography, and the gratification derived from learning, discovery, and puzzle-solving, propels the project. This impetus extends to exploring and exploiting socially charged subjects and political hypocrisy.

The process is driven by word selection and placement on the page often between a horizontal line dividing two words. Dense black charcoal is worked into the paper around each hand-drawn letter allowing the negative spaces of the paper to form the words. 

These puzzles evolve into vehicles for social commentary, thought-provoking humor, or sardonic observations, ultimately converging into meaningful expressions. The concept of a definitive "solution" relinquishes its absoluteness, transforming into the focal point of a more compelling personal quest.

In these drawings, a self-referential quality emerges, evolving into parodies of themselves – drawings of puzzles nested within puzzles.