Murals
Postmark Center Mural
This six foot by four foot mural at the basement entrance of the Postmark Center for the Arts in Auburn grounds the space in the local region’s natural landscape, weaving together local flora, a reindeer, and the steady presence of Mount Rainier. Bold color and linework celebrate growth, resilience, and movement, while the reindeer introduces a moment of curiosity and reflection. The mural connects the act of entering the building with the wider ecological and geographic systems that shape the region, offering a brief pause before moving through the Postmark Center space. (Postmark Center for the Arts - Auburn, WA)
Medium: External grade acrylic latex paint on concrete 5ft x 4ft
Tree of Life
This mural series transforms the Metropole stairwell space into a towering cedar tree, an essential resource in Coast Salish Indigenous culture and ecology. Each level introduces a different Pacific Northwest animal, symbolizing the values we inherit from nature: bears at the base reflect strength and grounded care; raccoons at the next level embody ingenuity and adaptability; squirrels, mid-ascent, express preparation and play; and birds in the canopy represent wisdom and vigilance.
The mural’s colors, cedar browns, forest greens, and sky blues, reflect the Northwest’s natural palette, while swirling cloud motifs reflect the artist’s cultural origin, tying the visual story to the land’s first stewards. As visitors move through the stairwell, they are invited to reflect on their relationship with place, community, and the ecosystems we share. (The Metropole Building, Pioneer Square - Seattle, WA)
Medium: Interior grade acrylic latex paint on concrete 4 stairwell landings
ReSpawn ReNew
Salmon are immensely significant to Settler communities and especially to the Native/Indigenous communities who call the Greater Seattle region home. They come in all shapes, colors, and variations across the continental U.S. and throughout the world. The salmon depicted here are swimming upriver to ReNew the next generation of Salmon. After journeying from the ocean, these Spawning Salmon swim upriver against currents that would discourage most. However, like the diverse Hillman City communities of the past, present, and future, they are resilient knowing that the next generation depends on the success of their persistence in the face of adversity. (Hillman City Neighborhood - Seattle, WA)
Medium: Mural installation on
building facade
Dynamic SEAs
This mural is dedicated to the workers who fill Seatac’s city boundaries day in and day out. These folks constantly fly under the radar of the city’s more well-known destinations like the Airport or the Hotels that occupy over 40% of the city’s footprint. It also celebrates the beauty and joy of Seatac parks uplifting a narrative that is more than just the airplanes that fly in and out of the region’s biggest port.
Medium: Mural Installation
Joe Goes There
Depicted here are personifications of some well known Fremont and Wallingford locales (silhouettes behind each "person") each varying in age, wisdom, knowledge, and experience. The connecting “dialogue” between them all is the public transit lines - usually reliable, sometimes late, but like any good dialogue, headed towards resolution and able to get you there eventually. The patterns and motifs seen throughout these panels are universally found in many cultures but are specific to the artist’s Tongan heritage from which he draws his greatest inspiration. Commissioned by Seattle Public Utilities in partnership with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Medium: Exterior Latex Paint, Acrylic Markers on Plywood Panels (6ft x 68ft)
haiKU-MAter-saFEKEeping
Auburn, WA like many of its neighboring municipalities, has seen momentous shifts that have shaken communities economically, politically, culturally and will continue to have impact for the foreseeable future. This disruption was a central theme I tried to encapsulate in this mural. I wanted to characterize the scale of what our region continually undergoes (constant change) while highlighting the beauty created when our communities work through the difficulties no matter how monumental the challenges might be. Commissioned by the City of Auburn Community Development Division.
Medium: Mural Painting on both sides of Concrete Wall Underpass (each 20 ft x
90 ft)
In descending order: “Mana Māhū” | “Tangaloa ‘Eitumatupu’a” (Tangaloa the Progenitor) | “Tama Nui te Rā” | “Tipuna Whero” (Cardinal Ancestor)
These individual panels were commissioned by Sound Transit to help cover up construction noise along the Kent/Des Moines and Federal Way Link Extension Stations between October, 2020 and October, 2021. Each of them depict powerful deities from Pacific (specifically Polynesian) lore embodying the spirit of Pasifika people in the Pacific NW.
Medium: Acrylic on unstretched 5ft x 10ft
canvas panels
