Influences & Interests

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 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant ✦  I Spy books  
 

Dead Can Dance ✦ Grayson Perry ✦ Basquiat  
 

Jewish Mysticism & the Old Testament ✦ Hannah Hoch 
 

  Tattoo Culture ✦ Traditional & neo-traditional tattoo flash  
 

Barbara Kruger ✦ Damselfrau ✦ Franz Kafka ✦ David Lynch 
 

Allen Ginsberg ✦ Charles M. Schulz ✦ Surrealism ✦ The Macabre

 Color theory ✦ Haruki Murakami ✦ Upcycled materials

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Neil Gaiman ✦ The Sandman Series ✦ Marjane Satrapi 
 

 The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova ✦ Isabel Allende 
 

Greek mythology ✦ Stephen Tashjian ✦ My best friend Jules
 

Charles Burns ✦ Hayao Miyazaki ✦ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ✦ Fairy-tales & folklore
 

Hedwig & the Angry Inch ✦ Alejandro Jodorowsky  
 

Jenny Holzer ✦ Ash Thayer ✦ Sol LeWitt ✦ Circe by Madeline Miller
 

 Paloma Smith ✦ Nicolette Johnson ✦ Goya ✦ Ute Grossman

The Color of Pomegranates ✦ Helen Oyeyemi ✦ Margaret Atwood

Dax Riggs ✦ Existentialism ✦ Magical Realism  ✦ Junji Ito

Khalil Gibran ✦ old school DIY punk & metal flyers  ✦ Ray Pettibon

Vivienne Westwood ✦ Milan Kundera ✦ Jamie Reid

Steven Spielberg ✦ Rob Zombie ✦ X-Files ✦ James Jean
 

Zak Smith ✦ April Werle ✦ DIY culture ✦ Adrian  Baxter
 

 Frank Frazetta ✦ Rebecca Yanovskaya  ✦ Cody Hoyt
 

 Jocelyn Y Howard ✦ Kiki Smith ✦ Nick Cave ✦ Wangechi Mutu
 

 White Oleander by Janet Fitch ✦ The Magus ✦ Edward Gorey

Andrew Mark Dexel ✦ Michael Hoban North Beach Leather  
 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari  ✦ Tina Lugo ✦ Toshio Saeki   
 

Keith Haring ✦ Marc Chagall  ✦ The Invisible Man by Zina Saro-Wiwa

  Adam Carvalho ✦ Watchmen by Alan Moore  
 

Isabelle Cochereau ✦ Dan Listwan ✦ Teen-aged misadventures
 

 Jack Kerouac ✦ I, Coriander by Sally Gardner ✦ Kristine Roepstorff 
 

Daniel Merriam ✦ Gregory Blackstock ✦ Keith Haring ✦ Louis Rhead