The title is a perfect summation of the picture; I have nothing to add to it.

Welcome To The Playpen

Collage on cardboard. 
 
The collage material was collected largely from travel books and old National Geographics.

Unconscious Travelogue

Acrylics on canvas. 
 
A very early surrealist painting, based on a view sketched from an urban overlook in downtown Denver.

View From S382

Tempera on cardboard. Shape is slightly irregular.

Reaching

As I was never able to blow all of the seeds off of a dandelion head with a single breath, creating this was my way of coping.

Breath

The heart is a repository

Collage on cardboard. 
 
The largest collage I've completed so far, and one of the largest artworks of any kind. All of the images were taken from video game-related media: guidebooks, magazines, and even a few packages.

Pixel Trash

Not sure if I intended this to look like a sentient mass of tangled ribbons; regardless, that's what it ended up as.

One Last Second

The result of subfreezing ambient air temperatures combined with wet roads.

Icy Bowtie

Entropic Landslide

A photo of sunlight glinting off of the plastic top cover of a laptop computer, refracted onto a sheet of white paper. If that makes any sense.

Empty Eye

Probably inspired by observing the visual resemblance between Egyptian pyramids and particularly high mountains. The title has multiple implications; it suggests that either the mountains or the pyramids, or both, are "false"; and the ripples over the image suggest that we're looking a mere reflection, a falsity, of something else.

False Positives

Pull the curtains

Acrylics and watercolors on canvas. An homage to/parody of the Pop Art works of Roy Lichtenstein, stenciled dots and all. 
 
Recommended for viewing with chromadepth 3-D glasses.

Oh, Rudiger...I Love You Too...But It's Still There!

Safe in its shell

This being a digital painting, the endlessly repeated stars were easy. Getting the kitten to look right without being overly mawkish or creepy was harder.

Kosmic Yarn

The skull is based on that of a Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture.

Death Rides The High Wind

Collage on cardboard. 
 
This collage was created mostly from material left over from other collages. Whether that makes it more or less interesting is subjective.

Gel By Jell

Notice that there are kinks in many of the curves in this picture; much of it was drawn freehand, instead of allowing the art app I used to set the curves automatically.

Possibilities

Oils on canvas board. A very difficult painting to photograph.

Color Road

Twilight Of The Mind

Ink, gel sticks, and tempera on cardboard. 
 
Started out as an asemic writing work, but turned into...something else.

Scale The Squiggle Wall

Collage and ink on plywood. Inspired partly by the film 'American Graffiti,' and partly by contemporary events in the Middle East. (It's complicated.)

Mideastern Graffiti

Gouache and watercolors on watercolor paper.

Embryonic Fury

Taken someplace I wasn't supposed to be in Denver, Colorado. No digital manipulation, believe it or not.

Infantile Communication

Envy the insects

Taken in Northfield, Colorado. No photoshopping; the distortion of the shop window glass took care of that.

More Than All There

Dramatis Personae

Acrylics, gouache, and watercolors on watercolor paper.

The Fault In Our Follicles

Like a salamander

The Terror And The Thrill

Many Moons Ago

Tempera on cardboard. Unsurprisingly, painted around Halloween.

Witches Shouldn' Drink (Their Own Potions)

Acrylics and mylar on canvas. Designed to be interactive, with the viewer seeing their face reflected in the spacesuit's visor.

Explorational Hazards

Oils on canvas. The title is an allusion to Friedrich Nietzsche's famous maxim, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." And when you look too long at a painting...

When You Look Long Into Art

Oils on canvas. Alternate title: "Let's see how many video game characters we can cram into one painting."

Arcadia

Taken in the civic center of Aurora, Colorado. It takes very little effort to make holiday lights look sinister in a photo; draw your own conclusions.

Hades Avenue

Looking Back

Gouache and watercolors on canvas. The title is pronounced "sink-us."

Cinchus

Acrylics, gouache, and watercolors on watercolor paper. When cinematic fantasy meets expressionist reality.

The Logical Outcome Of A Mine Car Ride

Until The Wind Dies

Collage on cardboard. 
 
The most human-populated of the collages displayed here. Using "Global South" as the title is an indirect critique of an increasingly-overused term that lumps together a vast variety of people and cultures.

Global South

Oils on canvas. Painted using a couple of thrift-store cassettes as visual reference, and probably intended as some sort of commentary on the decline of physical media.

The Unraveling

An intent hawk sits

Note that the form of the fairy on the tree stump is repeated on a much larger scale as an overlay.

Conundrum

A digitally colored black-and-white photo.

Bold 39

Ink on watercolor paper (plus a little accidental yellow watercolor on the nose). Painted using the chillpainting technique.

Chilltalk

Ink, gouache, and watercolors on watercolor paper.

Cheering The Infinite

Collage on cardboard. 
 
Possibly the weirdest of the collages displayed here.

Miraculous Banality

Gouache and watercolors on watercolor paper. Nonatych (contains nine separate pieces of paper)

Kiloton Jack

Tempera on cardboard. The "PSA" in the title is an acronym for "Public Service Announcement"; the idea being that this might be used to illustrate the dangers of wine glasses in favor of paper cups.

Paper Cup PSA

When the aging Sun

0: The Fool

Taken in Lowry, Colorado. The full sign reads "Watson," and is from a disused drug store, if I remember correctly.

Suon

One of a short series of photos taken in a high-traffic area of Denver at night. The curved light trails are those of insects attracted to the streetlight.

Light Traffic 3

As the shadows slink by

Flame In Vacuum

Acrylics on cardboard. The shape is slightly irregular.

Desert Jazz (just add water)

Oil pastels on watercolor paper. Very loosely inspired by Katsusika Hokusai's famous "Great Wave" woodblock print.

The Great Wave Off of Municipal Beach #527

Oils on canvas. When experimentation with brush techniques goes too far.

Staked Out

Tempera and acrylics on plywood. Partly inspired by Futurist paintings of the early 20th century, which attempted to depict motion in a static medium. 
 
Recommended for viewing with chromadepth 3-D glasses. (Seriously, try it; it looks great!)

Rosetation (Centrifugal Florals)

Starfall Garden

Extrasolar

Oils on canvas. You never know what you'll find once you start digging.

Nugget

Gel sticks on watercolor paper. Note how the overall shape resembles a human head.

Molding Yourself

Collage and acrylics on plywood. I chopped up a number of old travel and military books to make this. 
 
The Japanese title (and writing) translates as, "Giant (cute) monster! Oh, shit!, RUN!"

Ka(wai)iju-ko! Kuso! Nigeru!

Originally created to illustrate a non-fictional essay. The appearance of the fairy derives from their description in Caucasus legends, backwards feet and all.

Ibex And Mountain Fairy

Liquid Sunlight

Liquid Moonlight

Omnibration

Acrylics and ink on plywood. A depiction of the postulated destruction of Mars' moon Phobos, tens of millions of years in the future.

Phobos' Phobia

Taken in Crown Hill Park, Arvada, Colorado. It took a little patience to set up this shot.

Sheaf, Heath, Stag

Inspired by the medieval legend of Gawain and the Green Knight.

The Green Knight

Ink on watercolor paper. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian legend of the death and resurrection of the god Osiris.

Osiris

Genie Doesn't Dream Of You

Collage, tempera, and acrylics on cardboard. 
 
The images were taken mostly from aviation-themed books. The bird at the top is a Ruppell's Griffon vulture, the highest-flying bird in the world.

The Skies Will Soon Be Clear

Acrylics, gouache, and ink on canvas. A commentary upon the demands and sacrifices of modernity, rendered with all of the subtle maturity you'd expect of a 28-year-old.

Pillars + Foundation (diptych)

21st century Surrealist and Symbolist paintings, drawings, digital works and photos.

Outside And Away: Surrealism And Symbolism