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This piece includes three of my oft-used symbols: a garden, skulls, and devils.

For centuries and across cultures, the skull has been employed in art for a variety of purposes: a funerary representation; an idol of death; a vanitas warning—behave or you will die; a memento mori reminder—enjoy life as you are going to die anyway.

The devils in my work are dancing fools, frustrated imps, or beefy red guys in gym shorts. I feature these not as true external supernatural tempters, but as incarnations of internal struggles meant to be disempowered and overcome.