Artist, Writer, Narrative Strategist
Welcome; this site is a digital portfolio for my growing professional and creative work.
Artist (Higgs): I'm an emerging abstract expressionist painter. These abstract paintings express complex emotions and experiences and how I experience the world and my existence as an autistic, mixed-race man. As much as these pieces present my experience, they also mirror those observing them.
Freelance: I have over 12 years of experience in recruitment, digital communications, digital organizing, policy work, and narrative strategy. I've led the creation and instruction of a 6-week New Media for Union Members course for Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. Strategic planning efforts for POWER Interfaith and strategic narrative efforts for Free the Ballot. My work extends beyond messaging—how you communicate to your audience—leaning into narrative strategy and frameworks, and centering themes, frames, and ideas within your organization and messaging.
My Art
My work is an exploration of what might be called contextual expressionism, a meeting point between my internal world and the external, whether it be interpersonal relationships or global events. In doing so, they are a presentation and reflection of the context in which their creation exists, forcing the world and those observing my work to see the world, the context in which they exist, including both the good and the bad.
I see this work as a response to art as an aesthetic during a time of rising fascism, destruction, anti-intellectualism, AI slop, and genocide. In doing so, they have become a masculine act of creation, when masculinity is being presented as domination. Each piece, with music woven into its DNA, is injected with the emotionally expressive weight of my subjective interaction and observations of our shared existence.
While rejecting the rot of the modern world through expressionism, they compel observers to confront the complex emotions of simply being, learning to feel and express freely, instead of practicing avoidance of our world.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.
920-485-1280