Found imagery, montage, social exchange

Purchased thrift store artworks are changed with the subtle addition of cut out images of Predator and Reaper drones. The work reimagines discarded, everyday paintings, prints and photographs as visual reminders of droned skies. To date I’ve made well over a 300 pieces. Since moving to Scotland in 2017, I've continued this work, developing a UK based version of the project.

The larger intent of the project is to strategically re-donate the droned artworks back to thrift stores in order to facilitate the public re-distribution of the works. Towards this goal, in October of 2023, the entirety of the series created in the USA has been strategically re-donated to 13 thrift shops in and around the City of Las Vegas, Nevada - this puts them in proximity to the Creech Air Force Base, one of the primary command, training and control centers for drones in the USA. I see this as a long term effort to place drones into the skies of hundreds of pieces of thrift store art, document, share, exhibit, donate and so on. I am presently developing a framework for distributing the remaining 150+ UK based “Thrift Drones” to second hand shops United Kingdom. Visit my dedicated Instagram account to view the entirety of this project: https://www.instagram.com/thriftdrones