Greggles (he/him) is an artist and musician who revels in the inexplicable sorrow present in the shifting human mind as well as the simplicity of joy around every corner where games, songs, and jokes abound. He makes music under the name tongueandbass and has built a following by taking his silly mouth noises seriously. He paints, draws, and photographs many subjects ranging from portraits and landscapes to forest life and disc golf. All of his artwork is influenced by Synchromism – his favorite system for combining music theory and color theory.

The Twelve Steps are Giant Steps is a series of acrylic paintings and poems that show the fatal nature of addiction. Some people can float along holding the Magic-8-Ball-of-Fate like a balloon. Others are dragged down by it like a ball and chain. Some have their identities totally obscured by it. Living with a personal addiction or caring for an addict is like sitting beneath the sword of Damocles.

Continuum is a series of stain paintings that captures moments in a process. Multiple canvases are stretched together and painted through the front and back – representing forwards and backwards movement in time. Paint seeps into each canvas and dries. The layers are then separated like the layers of sediment in the geologic time scale. Each layer is shown as an individual moment and as part of an animation. The end result is a question: Do moments really exist? Or is everything in life part of a deterministic process that cannot be isolated from what came before and what will come after?

Drawings for Strangers is an unfinished blog that chronicles the sketches Greggles gave to helpful characters he met along the Mississippi River with his friend “Boots.”