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Gold Coin
1910 five-dollar Half Eagle · oil on gesso board · 18 × 20 inches
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Paintings with a personal story, handmade worlds, strange films and a camera watching the sky. 32 individual works pulled forward from the archive.
Father’s Workbench
A small oil painting preserving his father’s old workbench after the family home was sold.
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flint
A one-minute prehistoric character study from the 2024 film archive.
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Alien Museum
Crowded creatures, masks and artifacts inhabit a densely drawn alien museum.
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St Paul Night Storm
City lights and a night storm, recorded in an early St. Paul time-lapse film.
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Aquatic Florida
An imagined aquatic world crowded with shells, creatures and branching organic forms.
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Mika’s AI Builders
AI-controlled spheres began building inside the virtual world—and kept building far beyond the plan.
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Shipwrecks
Crashed spacecraft and towering rock turn an imagined landscape into a field of ruins.
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St. Paul, Three Eras
Three periods of St. Paul share one river view in a photographic collage.
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3D Work from 2000
Early modeled objects, interiors and a water-wheel scene, gathered into a preserved 3D portfolio board.
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Velvet Error
Moog synth, Strudel and vocal samples meet in a 2026 sound experiment.
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Folk Tales
Fairy-tale imagery with an uncanny edge, from the 2024 film archive.
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A towering, intricate digital castle filled with bridges, spires and tiny inhabited spaces.
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Refinery
An industrial model of towers, pipes and lit structures under a night sky.
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plunderphonics
A thirteen-minute experimental listening piece from the secondary channel.
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train set
A warmly lit miniature-looking railway town in a short film from 2023.
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Mining Plant Illustration
Conveyors, gantries, stairs and processing equipment form an intricately illustrated industrial plant.
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Midwest 1973
A modeled Midwestern riverfront with bridges, roads and a city beyond.
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Lithograph
Fantastic creatures and ornate, print-like textures crowd this 2023 visual short.
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Alien Store
A scanned pencil drawing becomes a fantastical shop through painting in Corel Painter.
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Building a Cathedral
A domed cathedral takes shape from basic building pieces in Second Life.
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Vermillion Falls by Drone
A 2016 flight at the Hastings waterfall that also appears in the painting archive.
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Night Drive
Headlights, road markings and shop signs dissolve into the glow of a night drive.
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Vector to Second Life
A vector illustration becomes a three-dimensional mesh object in Second Life.
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The 1918 Stockyards Gate
A brief aerial study of the old stockyards gate, looking down through its brick structure.
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Kmart
A familiar storefront and parking lot become a dark, glowing oil painting.
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An Early Second Life Creation
A 2011 tour of a first Second Life creation on a 1,400-prim plot.
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Gateways 3
A luminous blue portal stands in the desert in this 2024 passage through imagined worlds.
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Red Rock Saloon Window
Colored glass glows inside a rough stone wall at the Red Rock Saloon.
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U.S. Capitol Illustration
An exacting architectural illustration of the U.S. Capitol, its dome, façades and terraces.
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Shoulder Drivers
A sequence of hand-drawn highway scenes turns traffic, faces and impatient driving into a story.
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Secret Garden: Tablet Drawing
An earlier Secret Garden, preserved as a tablet-drawing film from 2013.
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Sketchbooks
Nearly ten minutes inside the sketchbooks, with loose figures, faces and layered exploratory lines.
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Work worth entering through.
Long-running visual worlds, channel identities and the new 600-artist research archive.
Juxtapozism
Collisions of image, place and invented reality from an earlier channel era.
Lindens Are Virtual
Virtual-city films and creative minds explored through built space.
Artist Library
Search 1,200 artists, follow related practices, and compare sourced records across both series.
The channel family
Six channels, one expanding archive.
Finished work, experiments, virtual worlds, time-lapse and aerial footage—every public Incoprea-linked channel in one place.
Incoprea
Main channelFinished films, music and the strongest selections from the wider studio.
Incoprea 2
Experimental channelWorking films, alternate cuts, gallery experiments and exploratory sound.
Juxtapozism
Visual experimentsCollage, editing and invented realities from an earlier channel era.
Lindens Are Virtual
Virtual worldsSecond Life architecture, galleries and stories built in shared space.
Life of a Camera
Time-lapseCity light, weather and movement observed through time-lapse photography.
Drone / GoPro
Earlier channelFlights, landscape footage and small-camera field experiments.
Audience favorites
The work people return to.
Selected from verified video totals and the journal’s current readership—not simply the newest entries.
Secret Garden
One of the most-watched works in the Incoprea film archive.
Most watched
Other Worlds
A widely watched visual journey that also became a publication.
Most watched
Alien City Drawing
An original drawing whose making found an audience of its own.
Popular artworkVirtual City Journal
Video, the city model and the possibility of creative virtual residents.
Most-read journal path
$5 Original Drawings
A numbered series of small original works made to stay direct and affordable.
Popular postPublications
Independent fiction, nonfiction, art books and illustrated projects in one catalog.
Popular postThe living archive
Follow the work across time.
Eleven visual anchors lead into the deeper map below—from the first Incoprea drawing to the current studio. Every section opens independently, so the archive stays rich without becoming a wall.
1995—now
One practice, many lives.
These are points of entry rather than a greatest-hits ranking: drawing, paint, digital worlds, film, field studies and the present-day journal.
1995 · rootsIncoprea Castle
The earliest surviving Incoprea drawing: towers, structures and an imagined city.
2014 · digitalFlowers
Intricate organic linework carried into digital color.
2015 · first paintingThe Old Mill
The Hastings mill in oil—the first painting in the archive.
2016 · iconGold Coin
The signature oil painting at the top of this page.
2015–19 · expansionBug Bar
A dream drawing that grew into a two-canvas painted world.
2021 · a new placeFirst Watercolor Here
A small field observation marking a new studio chapter.
2022 · field paintingVermillion Falls
Water, rock and moving light observed in oil on panel.
2023 · river studiesSt. Croix / Taylors Falls
Repeated plein-air studies become a record of place and geology.
2024 · watercolorMill Watercolor
The stone façade, warm wooden door and shadowed arch—the overlooked piece you remembered.
2025 · virtual cityJunkyard Inspiration
Field photographs and the possibility of painting among the old cars.
2026 · currentWatercolor & Ink
The present practice remains handmade, restless and open-ended.
01Art Across Time
Painting, watercolor, drawing and digital work from 1995 to now
64 paths
Visual deep dive
Field observation, invented cities and the handmade thread between them.
2015 · watercolorDarby the BearAn early storybook watercolor with a hot-air balloon.
2026 · currentWatercolor & InkA recent branch of the still-growing handmade archive.
2025 · digital cascadeWaterfallThe waterfall motif shifts from observed place into fantasy.
All art paths
Collections first, followed by individual works and older pages.
02Worlds & 3D
Virtual cities, galleries, architecture and long-running imagined places
50 paths
Visual deep dive
Built environments move from shared grids to browser tools and cinematic archives.
3D architectureCarson MansionA detailed model from the current 3D journal.
Browser worldVirtual GalleryWalk through the work inside a live 3D exhibition space.
Deep archiveExile WorldsHundreds of images extending one unsettled Midwestern reality.
All world paths
Core destinations, year archives and named environments.
03Film & Channels
Finished films, experimental cuts, virtual tours and six distinct channels
26 paths
Visual deep dive
Audience landmarks beside experimental work that belongs on Incoprea 2.
Incoprea 2 · field filmUnder the FieldA quieter experimental path through the same Midwestern imagination.
All film paths
Every channel identity plus selected films and libraries.
04Writing, Books & Research
Studio journals, art history, independent books and illustrated stories
27 paths
Visual deep dive
Research and publishing are treated as part of the artwork, not a separate footnote.
Independent fictionMaintenance RequiredSurreal Midwestern folk horror in print and ebook.
Art bookOther WorldsThe visual journey gathered into a publication.
Deep time · placeGeological HistoryIllustrated research beneath familiar Midwestern ground.
Illustrated storyThe Depot of Mild WeatherA speculative threshold where weather becomes institutional.
All reading paths
Research, books, journals, process writing and story collections.
05Apps, Games & Tools
Released work, active experiments and the complete Workshop shelf
60 paths
Visual deep dive
Finished games at the front; builders and experimental tools remain close to the workbench.
Released explorationSphereA hidden county, strange evidence and a landscape that rewards close looking.
Released gamePokerCinematic Texas Hold’em in Ember Gulch.
Builder suiteGame StudioTen linked tools for making art, sound, systems and playable worlds.
Creative suiteAV StudioTwenty apps for sound, image, motion and production.
3D builderWorld StudioBuild and explore personal browser-based worlds.
Experimental technologyIncoprea BBSA private ANSI node reimagined for the browser.
Every app path
The entire released catalog and every current public Workshop destination.
06Sound & Music
Fifty-seven public tracks, atmospheric sets and playable instruments
16 paths
Visual deep dive
Listen to finished sets or enter the tools where sound is still being made.
Atmospheric setSignal WeatherThree works where sound behaves like changing air.
Audio collectionGlass MeridianA focused path through the public sound archive.
Playable instrumentSIGNALSound, image and generative signal inside a browser console.
Visual compositionAudioBlocksBuild songs by arranging musical blocks across a timeline.
Mix labCosmixA playful cosmic editor for layering sound and motion.
All sound paths
Listening archives, sets, instruments and code-music experiments.