Collaboration with Aaron Glasson as a part of Forest For the Trees mural festival in Portland, Oregon. We painted this in 5 days and it's about 60 feet long and 40...

Mural collaboration with Aaron Glasson at Teeter in Ocean Beach, San Diego, right up the street from the Pacific Ocean and OB Pier. More photos coming soon!

I wrote this in wire for Love City Love and Homeless In Seattle's nowHERE social art exhibition next week in Seattle, Washington. After being displayed at the show,...

Sean Brannan, Aaron Glasson, and I curated an art show at Teeter in San Diego featuring work by myself, Aaron, Brigette Bloom, David Peña, Keenan Hartsten, Spenser...

Maayan asked me to live paint and capture her wedding with Jonny. I thought it was an awesome idea so I attended and did my best to capture their ceremony. It was...

Collaborative mural with Caratoes for PangeaSeed's Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans festival in Cozumel, Mexico. Our goal was to raise awareness about shark finning and...

The Blue Moon on July 31st, 2015! Inspired by my friend, David, and Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, California. Gouache and ink on paper. 8.25" x...

Watching Craig Schreiber play the drums is watching him loose himself to the music. This time he accidentally sacrificed himself while performing with the Verigolds...

Logo design for Nomastay, a new organic lifestyle establishment in Ocean Beach, San Diego. Original line drawing:

3 wall indoor mural collaboration with Aaron Glasson, painted with house paint.

An ongoing project sketching babes I see at the beach.

This zine is a collaboration between myself & Aaron Glasson as part of our Dimensiones project. All zines are signed and numbered and are of a Limited Edition of...

Illustrations to accompany an article on Deborah Madison, written by Rachel Khong, for Lucky Peach Magazine. Thanks, Walter!

Drawings from a 24 hour trip to Baja! Ink on paper. 9" x 12" I made Virgin Bob to accompany Virgin Mary.

Aaron Glasson and I were commissioned to make an installation for Desert Daze, a music festival that took place in Mecca, California this year. We came up with this...

I painted this after seeing so many cute baby sea lions around where I live in San Diego. The same week, I watched a nature documentary on Silverback Gorillas and...

The time the teleporter visited Bali and Patagonia.

Dimensiones is a collaborative short film project between myself and Aaron Glasson about inter-dimensional travelers. It's part of a larger ongoing body of...

Logo/typography design for AquaMate Swim School in Orange County, California. Original drawing:

Mural collaboration between myself and Aaron Glasson on the Tijuana side of the Mexico/USA border as part of our Dimensiones project about inter-dimensional...

For Giant Robot's Bite group show. Gouache and pencil on paper. 8" x 10"

Collaboration with Aaron Glasson for All Fresco's No Thing group show in Aukland, New Zealand. Perfect As A Pelican (feat. Alva Arpeggiator). Gouache and...

Little painting I made based on a lyric in a song I wrote. For Flatcolor Gallery's Journey Into the Other group show on May 7th. Gouache, colored pencil,...

I painted this triptych for my Auntie Fran's garden in Alameda. It's inspired by her travels through West Africa, Tanzania, and Mongolia. Acrylic and spray...

Collage for the Verigolds' upcoming show at the Balboa in San Diego. Typography by Aaron Glasson.

I built the cave as a livable art space in 2012 after interning in Santa Cruz with Encyclopedia Pictura on Trout Gulch Farm where everyone had built their own...

I made this illustration to accompany a Lucky Peach online article about Bill Marler, a lawyer who has been involved in fighting every major food-borne illness case...

Logo design for Together As One Philanthropic Society, an organization in Irvine, California that integrates autistic and non autistic children, providing...

Inspired by Baja’s desert and ocean and for Giant Robot's Bite group show. Gouache, acrylic, spray paint, & glitter on wood panel. 8″ x 10″

The Gray Whales travel to Lagoons in Baja, Mexico to mate and give birth from December - April every year and then travel back up to Alaska. I visited them at...

My grandma has all these little Buddha statues around her house where Buddha is laughing and looking super joyous. I thought that was a great way for a holy person...

LIMITED EDITION 17" x 17" PRINTS AVAILABLE HERE!!! Aaron Glasson and I were commissioned to paint this in Mexico City for Ana and inspired by Ana (check out her...

Logo design + Film and digital photos for San Diego based band, the Verigolds.

Geode sculptures Aaron Glasson and I made for the Castles In the Sky group show at Low Gallery in San Diego! They're hand carved and painted and are $100. E-mail me...

I made this little painting for my grandma for her 91st birthday this year! It's my mom when she was 10 years old. 9" x 10". Gouache, acrylic, spraypaint,...

Ball point pen drawings I made of Aaron and Jonny while hanging out in my room.

For the Castles in the Sky group show at Low Gallery in San Diego on Friday, January 30 from 7-10pm. Collage on paper. 8" x 10"

The first pregnant woman in space (hasn’t actually happened yet) for the Castles in the Sky group show at Low Gallery in San Diego next Friday, January 30 from...

Letters I cut out from pictures of space in a NASA calendar on top of photos I took from my bedroom window in San Diego. The words are from Strange, a song my...

My sister, Yvonne, and I painted Fleetwood / Motley Goods' new storefront in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. It's desert themed and includes Joshua Trees,...

I started this painting not knowing what image I was going to create. My grandmother had left The Unsinkable Molly Brown on television in front of me and the...

This piece is about a girl who is following her dreams and leaving behind what didn't work for her. She just completed her yoga teacher training in Bali (hence the...

Poster design for TAU, a band out of Berlin that is going on tour in Mexico in January. Inspired by a dream I had.

Selected drawings from my sketchbook. My grandma:

While in Sri Lanka I created this animation and music to showcase at the Indochina Project in Vietnam, a project showcasing art inspired by Indochina. The...

I made this painting for Claire and Watkin after they took me to the Dandenong Ranges and let me stay at their wonderful house! A parrot landed on Claire in the...

My friend's mother, Mary Ruth, said that whenever she swims in her pool, she wears goggles and is swarmed by wasps. This was a funny image in my mind and the...

New piece for NOWOW Magazine that I drew while visiting a farm outside of Melbourne. It's coming out in January as a black and white line drawing in NOWOW's 90's...

Double exposure film experiment on expired film of the ocean, neighborhood plants, and my friend, Bethany, in Ocean Beach, California.

Aquí Ahora, a painting Aaron Glasson and I made and named after our show at Fifty24MX in Mexico City. It’s us in a boat (our rooftop room) floating in the lake...

Collaborative mural I painted with Aaron Glasson at SILO in Makers Quarter in San Diego.

The lovely folks involved with Sugar Mountain asked me to make a remix of their trailer. My idea of Sugar Mountain is that it's this thing that we're all searching...

Collaboration with Aaron Glasson for Aquí Ahora, our show at Fifty24mx. This is Mika, the lady who worked beneath our studio in Mexico City. Acrylic and gouache on...

Collaboration with Aaron Glasson for Aquí Ahora, our show at Fifty24mx. This is a man who we saw walking through Plaza Río de Janeiro in La Roma of Mexico City....

Collaboration with Aaron Glasson for Aquí Ahora, our show at Fifty24mx. This is the woman who makes and sells quesadillas and tlacoyos in front of our house in...

Mural by me and Aaron Glasson on the front wall ofFifty24mx to accompany our show, Aquí Ahora, on view now! The mural is of our friend, Enriqueta, saving a baby...

Illustrations to accompany Part Three of Billy Dominaeu's Spaghetti Incident for the Matter on medium.com. Read the article/play, A Slow, Steady, Sodium-Fueled...

Medium.com asked me to illustrate their new story about one of their writers, Billy Domineau, over-indulging on Olive Garden pasta through their pasta pass,...

Illustrations for Food Lab's Miracle of Feeding Cities contest handbook. Food Deserts. Gouache on paper. 6" x 8" Magic Fence (Keeping Out Wild Animals)....

I made these drawings for the UT Food Lab's 2014 Food Lab Challenge handbook to accompany historical facts about the food industry. Big thanks to Julie at...

Excited to share this poster I made for the upcoming ski adventure documentary, Sugar Mountain, being released next month! 8 Australian friends leave their...

Posters for Friday & Sunday of the first annual Oakland Echo! My good friend, Scott, in Disappearing People is a big part of putting on the 3 day long event so...

For more on this series, see Dolphins Can Fly.

I got the chance to hang out and collaborate with Brigette Bloom, an amazing photographer and sweet human being. We went to my favorite canyon in San Diego and I...

Inspired by recent times in Oakland and Berkeley, California. Gouache and acrylic on canvas. 9" x 12". Original for sale! E-mail celestebyers@gmail.com

I made this illustration for a The Food Lab's project in Austin, Texas called the Miracle of Feeding Cities. Thank you to Julie at Pentagram for the job!...

I dreamt that there were tiny orca whales in this little fish tank. They jumped onto the floor and I bent over to pick them up, then peeled them off the floor. I...

I painted my friend, Ally, of Sioux Magazine as her past/present/future self at Art Beats in San Francisco! Much thanks to Lauren Napolitano for the hookup....

I listen to a wonderful podcast called Radiolab all the time while I work. They recently had an episode about birds where they were talking about how archeologists...

My friends in the Verigolds asked me to paint their drum and I decided I needed to paint a symbol to represent them. I have seen some of the members wear cowboy...

I had a dream that Dan of Kozyndan was a banana. I painted him and Kozy as one, hula hooping! And HEY! I'm selling prints! 11" x 17" purple print on...

A girl I know told me she had a dream that I poured flowers into her head. This is the interpretation I made, using my sister as the subject. 20"x30" Acrylic...

/inkôrˈpôrēəl vyo͞os/ Sights of places, objects, and situations seen in the mind. Although they may not exist in physical reality, their origins are apart...

Here's my 2 day mural in Distrito Federal for Art Walk Mexico! I painted my best dog friend, Buster, who died a year ago due to an encounter with a dump truck. The...

For the first official PangeaSeed Seawalls Festival on Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo, Mexico, I painted my grandparents. My grandmother (Paw Paw) recently...

Aaron Glasson and I painted this in June in Hawaii to support Seawalls: Murals for Oceans on Isla Mujeres! Gouache on paper, 24"x24".

I heard a scraping noise in the morning and went over to a box my sister had left at our house to find a sealed plastic container containing one of the largest...

"All that exists and a small flower still exists," said Joy, pointing up at the sky, instantly inspiring me to make this. Pencil and gouache on paper. 11.75" x...

This is my tribute to Desert Daze, an amazing music festival put on in Mecca, California by Moon Block Party! The girl in the center paddled us through the lake, I...

I made this video of my sister, the person who knows me the best and who just happens to be an amazing human being. She writes songs, including the one in the...

I met Alain and Shamalee in Sri Lanka last summer. Alain let me stay at his house for a month as I contemplated taking a job working with him in the graphics...

M-Theory asked me to funkify their new record store in The Row Collective in Del Mar's Flower Hill Promenade. It was so awesome being able to bring a project like...

I met a dolphin trainer named Dave the other night at my dad's airplane hangar where I often meet interesting people. Like this woman who flies a private jet for...

Roy Little, head of Friends of Mission Bay Marshes, asked me to paint a mural on UCSD's Natural Reserve Systems' research trailer at Kendall Frost Marsh. The...

Aaron Glasson and I collaborated on this painting for your pleasure, our pleasure, and for World Oceans Day Hawaii, an event put on by PangeaSeed at the Honolulu...

When my dad and I were in Patagonia, he dreamt that he was on a bridge over water. He looked down and I was underwater, smiling and waving up at him! I used his...

I made this illustration for Boostive's new song, Geometrical Makeup. I've known a few of the band's members since I was in elementary and middle school and was...

Matt Dorfman asked me to illustrate Vanessa Barbara's New York Times Op-Ed article on the invasive red-eared slider turtles. Sold as pets, they live around 40 years...

Gouache and ink on paper. 16.5" x 11.75" I painted this compilation of creatures and landscapes I saw in Chile and...

Terrestrial. Gouache and ink on paper. 9" x 12" While I was making this, I listened to Santana & John McLaughlin's Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord, which...

My dad took me on this motorcycle trip through Patagonia, from Central Chile, back and forth through Argentina to the bottom and Southernmost city in South America,...

We the Sea is a zine I designed for PangeaSeed, an ocean conservation organization I've been working with. I created the images for it by combining PangeaSeed's...

Gouache, black sand, acrylic, and plastic diamonds on wood. 13.75” x 8.75”. Biking down a dirt road in Tulum, Mexico, the sun had set and I was surrounded...

7 of us out of 7 billion humans that were together to celebrate the beautiful moments of the Winter Solstice at the Mayan Ruins in Tulum, Mexico. Each of us...

Gouache, black sand, acrylic, and graphite on wood. 9.5” x 9.5”. I painted my dad as an island for Subtext & Yeller's Black Magic show on January 17th in...

This illustration is for the NYT Op Ed section's responses to an article on genetically modified crops and whether or not they're safe. There are a lot of...

QI /ché/ Chinese philosophy's ever-circulating life energy. On a trip to Sri Lanka this summer, Naomi Shon and I met Jenny, one of the founders of Khogy,...

Aaron Glasson and I painted this giant mural, Black Liva and the Lion Fish, in Tulum, Mexico for Residencia Gorila's Lion Fish Project. The lion fish are an...

Photography by Naomi Shon, animation and illustration by myself, music by Maxine Ashley. Created for the Unlimited Magazine. Gouache, and ink on paper....

I did the pouch and cover design for Guts, a mini magazine inside Lucky Peach's current Cooks & Chefs Issue. You tear open the stomach to find Guts! I took it with...

Poster design and image for Solidarity, an event in Vietnam put on by dOSe, Blackmarket No.3, and UNICEF to raise funds for survivors of Typhoon Haiyen in the...

Inspired by the power of meditation and a story Eduardo Tostado wrote that mentions rocket powered shoes as a part of the Weekly Writing Workshop. Drawn of my...

Naomi & Chuck shedding their skin in honor of the end of the Chinese Zodiac’s year of the water snake for Sioux Magazine. Gouache, ink, graphite, &...

Gary Wilson sings of past loves and romantic dates, often performing with mannequin parts, duct tape, and cellophane props as he writhes, singing on the floor. I...

Illustrations I made for the cover and interior of a book on Cook's Garden in Los Angeles, being released sometime soon by McSweeney's and Airbnb! Cook's Garden...

This was a seafood sign I found at a thrift store a couple years ago. I changed it to Sealife and added some shrimp and a multicolored-amazing-patterned lobster...

Logo and flavor symbol design for be Runa's seed salts and sweets. Plants in my garden... the E was based off the succulent, the R is from the...

Aaron Glasson and I designed some pro model skateboards for IFO Skateboarders, Kazuhiro "Captain" Hiroki, Yuto Kojima, Takashi Yamaguchi, and Soichiro...

Apes Do NOT Need Vaccines, Too August 2, 2013 Illustration to accompany New York Times article endorsing testing on endangered chimpanzees to save more...

After visiting Vietnam's Whale Island, Aaron Glasson and I decided to paint a mural about what we witnessed. The plastic waste from nearby fish farms was totally...

This piece is the inside cover of Lucky Peach’s Gender Issue! Order one HERE. Thank you, Lucky Peach! An Auntie in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, who makes...

The Readymade in Hong Kong published a book on my Life on Life series as a part of their Artbook collection. 23 of my pieces are included in the book, selected...

Drawing of monkeys based on these photographs of monkeys I found in Vietnam.

Illustration to accompany responses to a New York Times article about the need to transform our food production system toward a more sustainable one. Say no to...

Illustration to accompany New York Times article on what causes celiac disease, a disease where the ingestion of gluten (found in wheat) causes the small intestine...

Music video I made for Wild Wild Wets' Realized Into Redwoods. FIlm Stills:

This woman runs a fruit stand in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She’s often found in the company of her daughter and mother. These illustrations are based on the Hindu...

Illustrations for Lucky Peach, published by McSweeney's.

I put bindis all over Shamalee's face, Naomi Shon took a picture, I drew on it and sprinkled on some glitter. I put bindis on Shamalee's face for Naomi's photo...

After eating many a chôm chôm in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, I was inspired to paint one so I asked this man if I could paint one on the side of his tiny house. He...

Simon Blackfoot, Rah Akaishi, and myself painted this mural in one day in Colombo, Sri Lanka for Pangea Seed’s Murals for Oceans project. Manta rays are...

Poster I illustrated for Drawn to Galle Fort, an art exhibition in Galle Fort, Sri Lanka. Juliet Coombe curated the event and asked me to make a poster after...

Photos by Reynaldo Cayetano Jr. Additions by myself and Rah Akaishi. Gotta love that iridescent holographic paper...

Drawing I started on my flight to Sri Lanka and carried around and documented fragments from my travels for the next 3 weeks. Pencil and ink on paper. How...

Chasing the cosmic carrot mural by Simon Blackfoot, Rah Akaishi, and myself on the Clock Inn in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Video by Rah Akaishi.

Typeface design & illustration for New Mexico's album, Malpais, being released later this year.

Images and video created using analogue and digital video feedback. Feedback loops are created when you point a camera at itself. I hook a camera into a television...

Poster design for Buffalo Tooth, The Natives, & Harsh Toke's February 10th show at Soda Bar in San Diego. Image from fragments of my life. I dreamt I was doing...

Commissioned painting inspired by plants, animals, a dream, rocks, and water I encountered during the months I worked on it.

Inspired by an image from Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Original drawing on my dining room chairs.

Drawings inspired by tafoni, a type of weathering that happens to rocks.

Album artwork and design for Murder By Death's new album, Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, released by Bloodshot Records.

Painted foam and clay sculpture based on various creatures and organisms. Ally with the sculpture

Drawing of Yvonne. Graphite and gouache on paper.

Poster and T-shirt design for Commune.

Illustrated covers of San Diego City Beat.

T-shirt designs for [SIC] Apparel. Hindu Remix & Solar Plexus

Gouache, ink, string, pastel, graphite, and spraypaint on paper resined to plexiglass.