Media: Monoprint on khadi paper, 31 x 22 in.
Category: Private commission
Client: The New Yorker
Art Director: Supriya Kalidas
Category: Editorial
For a short story by Annie Proulx published in the New Yorker fiction issue
Media: Acrylic on linen, 44 in. x 132 in.
Category: Personal Work
Client: Texas Monthly
Art Director: Jenn Hair Tompkins
Category: Editorial
A warthog unexpectedly and violently attacks his owner who raised him since birth.
Client: Roaring Brook Press
Category: Children's literature
Forthcoming in April 2025 from Roaring Brook Press. Available for preorder.
In this life-affirming picture book, acclaimed author Christopher Cheng weaves the true story of his family’s search for safety in the midst of war, demonstrating the strength of children in the face of the impossible.
Young Shu Lok didn’t know there was a war until it appeared on his doorstep.
Overnight, everything changes. His parents send him away, tucking him into a basket alongside his cousins to be carried to safety.
They travel in search of a place the war does not reach, over cloud-wreathed clifftops, and through cold, hungry nights where a rocky bed and cold bean curd cake are all that await him.
But Shu Lok comes to find that war does not define him. He remembers his parents’ words: be powerful like a dragon. Even if food and comfort are scarce, strength, resilience, and kindness can always be found. Even in the harshest times, dragons can learn to fly.
Based on author Christopher Cheng’s true family story and with breathtaking, sweeping illustrations by Jacqueline Tam, Powerful Like a Dragon is an honest and heartfelt invitation into one child’s experience during the Imperial Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941.
Client: The New York Times Magazine
Art Director: Victoria Escobar
Category: Editorial
A juxtaposition of climate extremes for NYT Magazine’s California issue. It was important to emphasize how the devastating effects of both flooding and drought, thunderstorms and dust storms have become frequent occurrences upon the same locations.
Category: Children’s literature
A night scene of a constellation twinkling over the observatories on Mauna Kea.
Category: Personal work
There’s a valley where the wisps of clouds passing overhead are captured in the reflection of a shallow river bed. The wind and the river work together within this isolated yet protected dimension to slowly gather and coax the wisps into the form of creatures - cormorants, lizards, beetles, sometimes even yaks. The maturation of each infant form is helped along by daily visits from the village children who feed them fresh fish. After a few months the cloud creatures are eventually strong enough to break the surface of the river bed and complete their passage over the mountain range.
Lucky Tigers
Medium: Sumi ink on watercolor paper
Category: Personal work
Year: 2022
Lucky Rabbits
Medium: Acrylic ink on drawing paper
Category: Personal work
Year: 2023
Dragon of Forking Paths
Medium: Monoprint on khadi paper
Category: Personal work
Year: 2024
Client: Texas Monthly
Art Director: Jenn Hair Tompkins
Category: Editorial
On how rural school districts are facing financial ruin and budgets are gradually being worn away.
Client: KTF Press
Category: Book Cover
Illustration and hand-lettering for Tamice Spencer-Helm’s new memoir, “Faith Unleavened”, published by KTF Press. The author felt it was important to include symbolic objects from her life as she navigated the wilderness of white evangelicalism - peppermints and Newports, tequila shots with communion cups, as well as scenes from the Black Lives Matter protests and Trayvon Martin’s shoes.
Category: Children's literature
Category: Children's literature
Explorations of a moonbeam’s adventures under the sea
Category: Personal work
Scenes from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in summer
Client: The Washington Post
Art Director: Audrey Valbuena
Category: Editorial
Created for a piece titled, “What counts as an American name in a changing nation?” where readers reflected on their experiences in America with “un-American” names.
Category: Children’s literature
A personal series that follows the course of a little girl’s day dream and adventure on a warm spring day.
Client: Think!Chinatown
Medium: Mixed media, xuan paper, bamboo
Year: 2023
Client: The New York Times Magazine
Art Direction: Annie Jen
Category: Editorial
On Denis Villeneuve’s journey as a director and his vision for the film Dune.
Client: Arnoldia
Art Director: Lou Thorne at Point Five
Category: Editorial
Created for Arnoldia on the night life of trees.
Client: The New Yorker
Art Director: Sebit Min
Category: Editorial
An illustration for a book review on the re-release of Ursula K. LeGuin’s novel, “The Left Hand of Darkness”.
Category: Personal work
A personal work that reflects on the “twisties”, a term that gymnasts use to describe a sense of disorientation in the air and one aspect of why Simone Biles bowed out of one of her 2020 Olympics competitions.
Selected illustrations from The Healer, a short story I wrote and illustrated about a dying king and a traveler who attempts to heal him.
Client: KTF Press
Category: Podcast Cover
I worked with KTF Press to develop artwork for their podcast, “Shake The Dust”, which features conversations around leaving colonized faith for the Kingdom of God.
Client: The Atavist Magazine
Art director: Ed Johnson
Category: Editorial
Created for a short story by Christina Lalanne and published in Atavist Magazine. The story follows the journey of a couple who discovers old love letters when they move into an historical home in San Francisco.
Category: Editorial
An unpublished cover about the concept of “credit”, symbolized by a meteor shower - an empowering but potentially catastrophic sight.
Client: New York Times
Art Director: Andrew Sondern
Category: Editorial
Media: Sumi Ink on paper
“The encroaching darkness of winter rides in with a rising wave of infection and death. But now it appears we can invest real hope in the coming coronavirus vaccines. After the solstice, the days get longer.”
Category: Personal work
A summer night after a thunderstorm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Media: Sumi ink on paper
Category: Personal work
Title: Wild Horses
Media: Silk Screen print, 25" x 25" in.
Category: Print
Year: 2017
A pattern of bucking horses, inspired by the energy and chaos of a bubbling volcano.
This piece received a Merit Award by 3x3 Mag in 2017 and was exhibited in the group show, “Dreamlogic” at Helikon Gallery (Denver, Colorado, 2017).
