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Exploration

Design and writing tools evolve quickly. Staying current means spending time using them—testing ideas, building projects, and seeing what holds up in practice. This page reflects that process.

What’s Here

Videos, images, and visual examples explore the possibilities of different tools and formats. Each piece demonstrates a particular capability, such as motion, layout, composition, or structure.

Why It Matters

The goal is to turn exploration into useful work. These examples show how different approaches can serve a communication goal. What works is what communicates clearly.

Design Concept Exploration

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Three silent visual studies created through exploration with AI.


What quietly shapes what we believe? What we read, what we are taught in classrooms and at home, and what our surroundings reward can become a worldview we defend before we have ever tested it. Contradictory ideas may feel threatening simply because they disturb what has become familiar.


This series explores how outside influence becomes inward conviction—and what it takes to question the lies we have accepted.


The creative process was also an exploration. I brought the concept and artistic direction; working with AI introduced unexpected possibilities that helped shape the imagery and its development. The work emerged through an exchange of intention, discovery, and refinement.

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Bondage To Lies

Influence can take hold by appealing to what we already want: possession, approval, power, or the satisfaction of being right. A message that indulges those desires may escape the scrutiny we give to an uncomfortable truth.

Lies Within

What happens when an accepted lie becomes part of our identity? Questioning it can feel like questioning ourselves. We may defend it fiercely, mistaking the strength of our attachment for evidence of its truth.

Freedom From Lies

Freedom begins with a willingness to examine our own convictions. What have we accepted without testing? What do we resist because it unsettles us? Recognizing our participation in deception opens the possibility of change.

Caricature Study

Caricature Study

A hyper-enthusiastic salesperson with exaggerated features is engaged in conversation.
Disillusioned by life’s circumstances, a man stares at the sky and remembers the goodness of God.
Engaged in a crisis conversation, two characters from the American Old West stand face-to-face.
Two characters, a man and a woman, stand nose-to-nose on a platform, each states their complaint.
In a bookstore, a demanding manager yells at an employee.
A couple is deliberating about setting sail for a new country.

Caricature Videos

Hyper-enthusiastic Salesperson

A hyper-enthusiastic salesperson with exaggerated features and an interested customer.

Deliberating

Deliberating about setting sail for a new country.

Illustration Videos

Six-Day Creation

The book of Genesis entrusted to the Jewish people preserves the history of humanity. This video features an easy-to-understand breakdown of the six days. 

Memoirs of an Evolving Hominid

A hominid reflects on the experience of transitioning from being an animal as he jots notes in his memoirs. Go to the "Thoughts Behind the Art" page and scroll down to read the rest of the story.

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Well-Trained Sheep

In this brief video or JPG download, designed to provoke thought and discussion, a sheep awakens and abandons the illusion of finding figs among thorns. Jesus spoke of two types of people in Luke 6:44 when he said, "For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor grapes from brambles."

Back-Talking Clay

A clay vessel being shaped into a usable form decides to raise objections with its maker.

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Time Is The Pressure

Time is the pressure. Death is the enemy of life. A decision must be made. Therefore, it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” (Ephesians 5:14 ESV).

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Crisis-Conversation

Engaged in a crisis conversation, two characters from the American Old West stand face-to-face.

Eventually reaching an understanding

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Complaint

A couple stands nose-to-nose on a platform, each voicing their complaint, with people in the background watching.

Disillusioned

Disillusioned by life’s circumstances, he gazed up at the sky, recalled God's goodness, and realized that God loved him.

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