Born in Seattle, WA, he received degrees in photography and archaeology from the University of Washington and his MFA from the University of New Mexico before going on to teach as a professor at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His photographic, digital, and video work invokes loss to explore the intersection of representation, language, and history and has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Eiteljorg Museum of Indian and Western Art and galleries from coast to coast. Computer and video based public art projects exploring language, the individual, chance encounters, and the silences of the public sphere have been commissioned by the cities of San Jose and Indianapolis and were part of the Zer01 biennial.