The work transforms within me first—
what remains, is meant for you.
I create as a way to listen.
To follow energy before it has a name.
To move through what cannot be spoken — and return with something real.
Each piece begins in a moment of Creative Release.
Sometimes it’s a color.
Sometimes it’s weight on my chest, or a need to resolve something unspoken.
Sometimes it’s silence that turns into motion.
I start by marking the surface — often black and white — and let the energy build, shift, unravel, reform.
It’s not about forcing beauty. It’s about revealing truth through the tension of contrast, the power of color, the balance of form.
This process is alchemy.
It’s where raw emotion becomes structure.
Where frustration becomes wisdom.
Where chaos becomes resonance.
I work with the cycles — inner and outer.
Nature. Seasons. Collective emotion. Energy from conversations, or from something deeper I can’t trace.
Sometimes the work moves fast — 80% in the first hour.
Other times it builds over weeks, undoing and rebuilding itself until it feels like a moment held in perfect tension.
My art doesn’t belong to a genre.
It belongs to the space between things —
between what was and what wants to be.
For those who feel it, it becomes a mirror.
Some find a truth they hadn’t seen.
Others feel a sense of themselves — an unlocking, a permission, a curiosity.
If my work imprints on you… it’s already doing its job.
I don’t create decor. I don’t chase trends.
This isn’t mass-produced energy.
It’s not about being understood at a glance.
It’s about standing in front of something and remembering you’ve been here before — even if you can’t explain it.
This is how I process the world.
This is how I heal, and how I offer healing.
This is how I speak.
If something in you responds to that — you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.
-Rory
“Captured mid-process in the Tahoe studio— where color, chaos, and clarity converge.”
