Behind the art
Stories
Here, you can explore the series I have created, the visions that inspire my dreams, stories from my childhood, my ventures into various art forms over the years, and my unfiltered rants and raves.
Stories from the Bible, retold
Ben’s retellings of Bible stories, starting with Cain and Abel as Ren and Stimpy. One page, every story in the series.
Pop Culture
Riders of the Lost Art
Twenty characters riding twenty very different things. Mount up and enjoy the ride.
From the Studio
Thrift Store Recreations
Ben hunts thrift stores for forgotten paintings, then gives them a second, much stranger life.
From the Studio
Venturing into Different Areas: Making Tacky Lamps
Tacky lamps put together to kill time and keep the mind busy, with more on the way.
From the Studio
Tidy, the Last Purifidillo
A slightly disturbing coloring book for adultish children and childish adults, starring a little creature who eats the world’s messes.
Fiction
The Stillborn Passing
A story in progress: an old man leads the silent Compolche through the sacred jungle, in the year of the falling turtles.
From the Studio
Coffee and Zombies
Morning warm-ups from a coffee-shop patio in 2007: people walking by, drawn as zombies.
Life and Art
Learning to Cope with Life Through Art
We are all survivors: Ben on fighting through hard times by making art.
Shows
Spacial Wanderings Art Show, Feb. 2014
A solo show in Dayton, Ohio, built around Ben’s obsession with outer space.
Life and Art
Zeusophobia, the Fear of God
Growing up apostolic Pentecostal, and the wrathful God Ben was taught to fear.