I've spent over two decades behind a camera, telling other people's stories — and I've had a ball doing it. But I reached a point where there were other stories I wanted to tell. My stories. Ones that only existed in my mind.
Distant Earth Studio is where those stories become something you can hold in your hand.
I learned to screen print in high school art class and took to it immediately. On weekends I was supplementing my lawn-mowing money by printing shirts for local groups and businesses. Then college happened, I picked up a camera, and the squeegee went into storage for a long time.
Years later, when the pandemic shut down the photo industry overnight, I needed something to do with my hands. I pulled the screens back out — and rediscovered an old love. The studio grew from there: a love for making things with ink on paper, physical objects that live in a book, on a wall, or on your back.
By day, I'm an assignment photographer. I also design and maintain the science-fiction tabletop RPG Lagrange Point, produce the actual-play TTRPG podcast Nerds of the Pit, and am a member of IskraPrint — a screen printing collective based in Burlington, Vermont.
Art for a Fictional Universe
What do I mean when I say "Art for a Fictional Universe?" It's the imagination made real: everything we see, hear, and feel in our minds, transmogrified into existence using ink, pencil, and paper. It's also a challenge, an appeal to stop and consider the possibility that we're living inside a simulation. And if that's true, does it make any of the things we experience less real?
ToolsEvery file in this studio is made with free and open-source software — Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, Krita, RawTherapee, and Linux. No subscriptions. No gatekeepers, no files held hostage behind a monthly fee.
