"Margot" from Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" : A group of school children on Venus anticipate their first hour of sunlight in a world of constant rain. Margot is outcast because she has seen the sun before. Winner of the 2022 Jason Polan Scholarship, Society of Illustrators. A paleontologist discovers a grouping of fossils in the hell creek formation of North Dakota that may capture the cataclysmic day the dinosaurs went extinct. Visualization for SCUP Aquaculture of a multipurpose mussel farming structure. A New Leaf: Scientists try to engineer a more fruitful crop and avoid a global food crisis by interfering in the ancient process of photosynthesis. Selected for the 2023 Society of illustrators student competition. "Yamabiko" : Frequently heard but seldom seen, "Yamabiko" (山彦) translates as “echo” and is the yōkai in Japanese folklore responsible for the phenomenon found in mountains and canyons. Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime. Picture book coming out in May 2024. Piecing together the extinction of Tasmanian Tigers through a study of over 1,000 reported sightings suggests they may have survived past 1936. Industrial Landscape, Risograph print. "First Errand" : Based on a 99% Invisible podcast about the independence and mobility of children in Japanese communities. Sentries "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury: An ancient sea monster mistakes a lighthouse fog horn for one of its own kind. Moth man St. George and the dragon, Lino-cut print. Snow Day! "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey": A man meets a name-stealing monkey in a hot springs town. From a short story by Haruki Murakami, originally published in the New Yorker. Also the cover of volume 45 issue 6 of the College hill Independent. https://www.theindy.org/issue/521. Winner of 2023 Nancy Lee Rhodes scholarship, Society of Illustrators. "The Peppered Moth" Graphite: The Peppered Moth is native to industrialized regions of England. During the industrial revolution, coal dust covered trees and made the white moth stand out to predators, in an evolutionary blink of an eye the Peppered Moth adapted to a dark speckled pattern. 2023 New Years card/poster idea Caterpillar "Data collection" editorial assignment for Intercom. The reading Tree "Peregrine falcons": The Peregrine Falcon has adapted remarkably well to urban environments like New York City, where skyscrapers mimic its original mountain habitat. "Collision course": The colonization of New England saw two vastly different world views colliding to create the world we live in today. Wampum, created by the indigenous, expressed reciprocity with the land, while European colonizers selfishly exploited the land. "Le Mooz": originally published in The New Yorker, a moose drives a wedge between elderly Native American couple. A story about love, revenge, forgiveness, and farts.. "Fashion at street-level" spot illustrations about a rat's perspective on fashion. "Immigration Rhetoric" for the Brown Political Review: Empty words from the Biden administration on immigration policies. Article: https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/10/why-foreign-aid-is-not-enough-to-resolve-surges-in-migration-from-central-america/ "Bake-Kujira" 3 color Silkscreen: A creature from Japanese folklore, the Bake-kujira appears on foggy, rainy days as a ghostly whale. Strange birds and fish follow it wherever it goes and it is seen as a bad omen. Strawberry Farmer The chase "20000 Leagues Under the Sea": Book jacket design inspired by Ernst Haeckel's illustrations. "Surfers in the snow" risograph print: Modern take on Bruegel's "Hunters in the Snow". "Spring Movie Preview" Mock editorial for The New Yorker: 'The Torch', a documentary on the guitarist Buddy Guy; an old British cabbie steals a Goya in 'The Duke'; a daughter meets her mother as a child in 'Petite Maman.' "Child Labor and Capitlaism" Editorial assignment for the Brown Political Review. Article: https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/12/child-labor-is-a-feature-of-our-capitalist-system/ A circus lion takes revenge on his cruel tamer.

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