Both serious and playful, Spin's artwork is informed by his belief that an experience of deeper awareness is unconditionally beneficial to all. Understanding that a lotus blooms from the mud, his work seeks to transform the mundane into magic and the everyday into the sublime. A single encounter with one of Spin's work will embed deeply within one's consciousness and begin to do its work there. Whatever the medium or setting, his work may simultaneously soothe and unsettle. You may find yourself visiting that feeling over and over, or it may lie dormant for several years before coming to the surface again, but a seed has been planted. Each work is intended to serve similarly to a Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism: standing next to complete enlightenment as it continues to liberate all other sentient beings from suffering.
Spin grew up near Denver, Colorado and studied Asian and Religion Studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pensylvania. Since then, he has lived and practiced at a Japanese Zen monastery, worked on Wall Street, scuba dove in the Marianas Trench, drank plenty of wine in Europe, and studied various arts and crafts under some deeply committed and talented teachers. He has participated in numerous group and solo shows in New York, Colorado, and Japan. He currently lives and works in Denver, or wherever he happens to find himself.