A hand painted oracle card illustration, serving as the foundational image of the Mayura Oracle system. It appears symbolically in later cards that explore polarity, reciprocity, and alchemical transformation. The vessel motif also echoes throughout broader Mayura philosophy.

Guerdon was created in November 2011 during the early months of the Souvenir project. At its core, the image represents an interior decision: to remain standing and face the storm when it arrives, even in total darkness.

A chalk pastel drawing of a young woman (Jennifer) sitting on a broken swing in tall grass at dusk, rendered on black paper so that shadow precedes light. The figure turns slightly away from the viewer, her face framed by the last light of the day.

An oil painting of two figures seated at the edge of a vast body of water, facing a distant horizon where a city glows beneath an unsettled sky. The space between foreground and horizon is heavy with depth, the sky may be clearing or thickening. The image resists resolution.

A chalk pastel drawing of koi observed in an indoor conservatory pond. At its simplest, this is a study of how light catches reflection, bends, and disappears beneath dark surfaces.

A photograph taken during an early October snowfall on Bolivar Heights. This image became a foundational moment in the Souvenir project, connecting dream, place, and the practice of witnessing meaning over time.

A goldfish suspended mid-leap above its bowl, moonlight catching water and glass, a moment held between containment and consequence.

A single eye suspended in full-spectrum watercolor, operating within the Mayura Oracle deck as an image of reciprocal perception and contained presence.

Photographed in 2011 inside the Millville schoolhouse, this Souvenir image captures a bowed form held between light and shadow in an an old schoolhouse classroom.

A long-exposure photograph made during a first-year photography assignment at Union Station captures the tension between monumental architecture, passing crowds, and a single figure seated quietly within the space.

A watercolor study of a narrow street in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Painted from a personal photograph, the piece explores the texture of stone walls, wooden steps, and wet pavement beneath a gray sky, capturing the quiet atmosphere of a familiar place layered with memory.

The Friendship card from the Mayura Oracle deck, originally painted in gouache in 2022 and later developed into a foiled oracle card. The image depicts a candlelit table and window, symbolizing the shared space where connection, reflection, and inner work converge.

A watercolor study of a heron along the Shenandoah River, drawn from a photograph and grounded in a landscape shaped by repeated memory and routine.

A black-and-white profile portrait exploring form, silhouette, and the balance of light and shadow through a carefully constructed studio composition.

A marker illustration of a crowded passage shaped by light and shadow, where streets and walls feel as conscious and recognizable as the individual within them.

An image developed through art therapy in 2020, later adapted into the Mayura Oracle deck. A study of emergence, illumination, and the brief suspension of form as something rises into awareness.

An early painting based on a 2006 photograph taken on Bolivar Heights. Part of an ongoing visual thread exploring figure, place, and the emergence of forms that would take on greater meaning over time.

A photograph from Christmas Day 2012, taken just after my uncle’s funeral, when everything appeared unchanged and yet was no longer the same. Part of an ongoing documentation of family, place, and the slow shift of structures once assumed to endure.

A winter photograph taken at the Ocean City inlet, where sand, fencing, and horizon lines begin to register as something other than landscape. Within Souvenir, the image marks a moment where external place and internal terrain briefly align.

A series of small gouache studies created as part of a daily studio practice, focused on rebuilding consistency, material familiarity, and a sustainable rhythm of making.

A hand painted oracle card illustration, serving as the foundational image of the Mayura Oracle system. It appears symbolically in later cards that explore polarity, reciprocity, and alchemical transformation. The vessel motif also echoes throughout broader Mayura philosophy.

A photograph of a found feather, made on April 7, 2012, as part of the Souvenir Project. The image documents the moment a sustained creative block broke, not through effort, but through surrender. One of the more consequential photographs in the archive.

A printed and foiled oracle card from the Mayura Oracle Deck, addressing the theme of home through a layered symbolic composition of roots, tree rings, deer, and feathers. Part of an early vision card series developed through a twelve-week class, and the first card in the series to receive a printed back.

An alcohol marker and chalk pencil illustration of a figure standing beside an antique large-format camera, holding a flash lamp at the moment of ignition. One of a series of illustrations from an ongoing private manuscript project.

A printed and foiled oracle card from the Mayura Oracle Deck, addressing the theme of mental health through a layered symbolic composition.

Photographed in 2012 inside the Millville schoolhouse, these two frames speak to different kinds of witnessing.

A figure stands on a rocky outcropping, staff in hand, a dog beside him. Below, the rock face drops away into shadow. The composition draws on one of the recurring threads of this project, the solitary figure in relationship to that something beyond

A printed and foiled oracle card from the Mayura Oracle Deck, addressing the theme of creativity through a layered symbolic composition.