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You've Arrived at a Highly-Specific Place

This site showcases my artwork and illustration, the majority of which is hand-drawn with black pen on white paper by building small strokes and lines into intensive works of textural detail. I have over thirty-five years of experience as a self-taught visual artist and twenty-five years designing both physical and digital media primarily for personal projects. This place is neither an advertisement nor am I offering my "services", it simply serves to document my work. While this site doesn't catalog every single thing I've done, it nonetheless offers a thorough collection of artwork spanning my adult life.

Since the early 2000s I've found and created opportunities to express my ideas through online outlets and this site is the latest incarnation. My personal and professional experience bridges a gap between hands-on "traditional" media and digital technology, though all of my actual art is created exclusively with my own hands. I've attempted to create a site for my physical art that honors the unique experience of an old school "homepage" while remaining reasonably streamlined and functional. The centralization of the internet was a huge mistake and I celebrate the early days where the online experience was ruled by authentic and eccentric individuals with a singular interest in expressing themselves as they saw fit within their own semi-public fiefdoms.

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Mafia Bloodlines: A Society Unto Themselves

I write in-depth research-based analysis of the Sicilian-American mafia phenomenon, occasionally delving into other regional Italian branches that fed into Cosa Nostra. Though my work is primarily focused on North America, I also take an interest in the international roots of the organization that still persist to some degree today. My approach is extremely niche and overwhelmingly detail-oriented while still attempting to describe the "bigger picture" of Cosa Nostra. Much as my artwork is a mutant product that nonetheless branches out from a structured foundation, my research and writing follows tangents and is at times non-linear yet everything I discuss is connected and grounded by the core topic at hand.

I've been researching this subject for two decades and my writing focuses on an interlocking combination of genealogy, culture, history, criminal activity, and multi-generational relationships between the men who form this unbelievable network of people and places. Through my research I've made contact with authors, historians, and even people much closer to the world I write about. My goal is to explore this subject objectively and thoroughly while expanding our understanding of this highly-publicized secret society. My passion for the subject commands me to do it and I seek no financial compensation nor mainstream attention for what I do although I appreciate any and all engagement my work receives.

Currently I'm publishing articles on Substack, a newsletter/blog service. It does not require subscription and you can click through the main page to access the archive. "Mafia Bloodlines" has also expanded to include audio episodes where I occasionally speak off-the-cuff from within a research-based foundation. In addition to serving as a host of the "Mob Archeologists" YouTube show, I've made guest appearances on several popular mafia-related shows and simply enjoy discussing it with other people who are "on the level."