The collection
Archival, museum-grade prints. Each one is made when you order it, not pulled from a shelf — so nothing sits waiting, and nothing arrives less than it should.
Stethoscope Across the Divide
Duty over a protracted timeline. Not tied to one deployment, one job, or one point in life. Everything else fades to the back, behind the role. It's all in the same vein: assisting others when they're in pain, through decades, or even a lifetime. The kid is handing the responsibility over to the older man, and the older man is that same kid, receiving and accepting it.
Starts at $27
Sergeant
The incalculable fortune of having experienced guys we looked to for tacit guidance. The good ones somehow seem to have a superpower of control in an otherwise uncontrollable environment. They wield such a force that all you can do is appreciate it with awe.
Starts at $27
Radio Operator
Tethered to the radio, it being his lifeline and him being the lifeline for the company. The messages he sends out over the net are the birds being released. Even though it's intentional, there are no guaranteed outcomes. Just sending up birds and hoping they find their way to the right ear at the right moment to relay the critical information.
Starts at $27
Golden Cross
The medical cross has always stood for hope and consistency, from work to war, battle to battle, day to day. Carrying that little cross has been an unspeakable honor. Trying to live up to it has been humbling, because the symbol is universal, and there's a responsibility to uphold that hope for others no matter what's going on.
Starts at $27
Two Kinds of Duty
It's hard to remember what's a dream and what's a memory. These are little elements of the medic I've carried in my head, still trying to parse them out. Tourniquets turning into snakes, dog tags turning into birds, missiles coming in and birds flying out. The things remembered, the things studied, and who you're doing it for.
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Tunnel Vision
When you're working on someone, you're completely in that moment, no matter what's happening around you. What's outside that tunnel is a blur afterward, so it's supposed to be chaotic. The medic and the guys function with an intense focus, from macro to micro, and back. Shown as a situation within a situation.
Starts at $27
Medic Dream
Trying to remember whether some of it was real, or if I'm adding to it from dreams and nightmares. The unconscious stuff that's come up over the years. Medical equipment turning into something else, helicopters into whales, a medical bag into the cosmos, blood into flowers for new life, or vice versa. Attempting to recall, and find meaning in the years after.
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Triage
Anatomical drawings, debris surrounding him, uncontrolled and all at once, seemingly none of it moves him. He's a beacon of solidarity through the chaos. Not that he isn't overwhelmed, he's in it too. The medic walking among it, through it, surrounded by it, not untouched by it, but preserving his energy for his purpose; the guys.
Starts at $27
IVs as Lanterns
A medic, his patient, and the relationship a medic has with the guys they care for, even at their worst times. The IV and the medic together are the light, and in some cases the life source. The medic has to find that balance between hopelessness and hope, and fight to provide it, not only for the guy who's wounded and those around him, but for himself.
Starts at $27
Layers of Protection
The layers we all have. The internal ones where we hide or hold things in, the mental ones we wrap around those things, the anatomical ones, our physical body, a rib cage. The clothes we put on, the training we take on, and on top of it all, especially going to war, actual armor. Inside all those layers, the kid, either our own child or us, that we're trying so hard to protect from inevitable pain.
Starts at $27
Stryker Driver
I was in a Stryker unit I considered us lucky to be in. What's inside the driver's hatch, and what's inside his head. A great, utter helplessness against overwhelming, continuous circumstances, all of it separated from him by armor and screens. His connection to the conflict, around him and in him, difficult to define moment to moment.
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Worn Out, Untreated Wound
Years of accumulated, unresolved calls, and how the role can wear someone out. The kid waiting for the guy to come home after shift, regardless of what happened on that shift. Near the end of the line, the older man realizes he became who he is to rescue himself as a child, the one who felt overwhelming fear and uncertainty, but didn't get the help he needed. He spent a career helping others to fix a wrong from the past, and never went back for himself. That's who the kid is.
Starts at $27