For Progress, There Is No Cure
I have been reading a lot lately about artificial intelligence; what it is and isn’t, where it comes from and where it’s going. I am a Luddite, confirmed, and my…
I have been reading a lot lately about artificial intelligence; what it is and isn’t, where it comes from and where it’s going. I am a Luddite, confirmed, and my…
In October of 2023 I opened a show at Souvenir Gallery in Portland, OR, which pulls together a skein of projects from the past five years into one exhibit. The…
I’m pleased to share the publication of an article that I wrote for the New Republic magazine, which you can read here. This piece covers some of the experience that…
The Teamsters union is about to go on strike against UPS. If they do, it would be the largest strike against a single business in the history of the USA….
I spent three weeks in May in Lubumbashi, the second largest city in DR Congo. The city was founded in 1910 as a commercial garrison for the nearby Etoile du…
I’m in Lubumbashi, DR Congo for three weeks, doing research and presenting about my work on the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. I’m staying…
Fucking Cancelled is a podcast from Montreal, Canada, hosted by Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, which deals with what the hosts call the Nexus: the synthesis of identitarianism, social media…
I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the…
I got to have a fun and wide-ranging conversation with friend and colleague Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talked about Congo, conservation, the sorry…
I gave a lecture on my research into the legacy of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in DR Congo for the Hanford Challenge Project. Hanford is the name of the military…
I traveled to Tulsa in October of 2022 to collaborate on this mural with an artist that I’ve admired for a long time. Kathleen Neeley is an illustrator and printmaker…
Street Roots is Portland, OR’s street newspaper, sold across the metro area by people experiencing houselessness. It’s also reliably one of the best publications in the city hands down on…
In June I travelled to the town of Selkirk, Treaty 2 territory, Manitoba, Canada, to paint a mural of the endangered Piping Plover. These charming small shorebirds are threatened by…
Across the USA, a wave of union activity is hitting the ubiquitous storefronts of the Starbucks brand. The baristas and “partners” calling for union elections are on the frontline of…
A new entry in the ongoing Endangered Species Mural Project just wrapped up in the small village of Shoshone, CA, on the edge of Death Valley. The mural is on…
I wrote this piece to accompany the second edition of this print. If you’re like me, and sorry in advance, you have spent a lot of your life wondering exactly…
In the first weeks of October, 2021, I traveled to Del Rio, Texas to paint the 26th installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project, an effort to paint murals of…
This design is based on a linocut that I’m eventually going to make into a formal print on paper, but I haven’t quite managed to do so yet. In the…
The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively polluting the Ecuadorian…
I’ve been working on a few poster designs for a commission from Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation and National Geographic magazine. Each poster involves my interpretations of iconic photographs…