Jebhani

Public Art sculpture for Redbud Art Trail at Wiess Park! Very excited to be able to create this sculpture. “Origami Great Blue Herron”.
Also, it has been an honor to PM with all these amazing artists in getting this trail set up near the Houstonian in Galleria, Houston Tx! 5th sculpture trail and more to come!
Please go check out the amazing sculptures on the trail! LINK IN BIO.

Creation from the edge where thought becomes sculpture…..an abstraction, bending steel as if it were a memory of paper. Each fold carries the echo of traditional Japanese origami, transformed by metal smithing into something both tender and unbreakable. He dedicates this Blue Heron sculpture as a symbol of resilience,and the quiet wisdom found in nature.
May it inspire all who pass to pause, reflect, and protect wild spaces we share.

Such a humbling moment to be part of this project—bringing life to color.

The HUEMAN project seeks to help unhoused individuals find refuge and reconnect with society, choosing seven “huemans” to tell their stories in Midtown Houston.

This project had a profound impact on me, connecting me to a full-circle moment in my life.
As I worked on it—visually documenting the streets and listening to unhoused huemans share their experiences each day over the course of a week—I felt deeply moved.

It brought me back to my own past: to the choices my father made that led to addiction and homelessness, and to the choices I would later make to pursue art.

Each color in this project represents a universal moment—one shared by every person whose circumstances brought them here. Moments that could belong to any of us, given the right (or wrong) set of conditions and choices.

In the end, I thank my father for showing me how to draw a swan when I was six years old. He didn’t know then that in that small moment, he ignited my creativity. I have carried that spark forward, fueled by a mix of pain and passion felt by my fathers choices through drugs, abandonment, abuse, hate, love, and in the end brought him to his death.

I also thank my mother, who did everything in her power to push my sister and me forward—into the people we are today. Instilling the determination not to surrender to my surroundings.

Thank you, Dad and Mom.

“Yesterday”
Oil on canvas
3 x 2