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About this Project

Traditionally totems served to encapsulate the spiritual beliefs of a group or clan of people. Similarly, I created a body of work that encapsulates the aura of the subculture of which I am a member. From the beginning I knew the work would be large and “grow” from the ground up. A person standing in front of one of my totems is confronted with an undulating mass of dripping color and symmetrical form. Each piece is hand cut, hand woven, and hand painted. The cutting and weaving is an essential language of forms that upon layering reveal the macrocosmic being within. The totems thick pigment emanates prismatic light. As the eye passes through the curling forms, the illusion of motion is created. The Totems, for those who come in contact, serve both as protectors and imply new mythologies in the American landscape. The hours of repetitive cutting becomes a mantra or waking meditation. I see this process as an alchemical transformation of bodily energy into a conceptual talisman reverberating through the American collective unconscious.

About this Project

About this Project

These are a selection of a few of the video I have made since summer of 2006.
I see my video work as a conduit for the cultural static: when the interference gets to great I have to make a video.


"His work feels like the visual equivalent of Bmore crazy, hyper and mashed up, with various elements pillaged from the outer limits of trash culture feeding into the mix."
- Dazed and Confused


"pop-culture-psychedelic video shaman"
-Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

"This is awesome. " - Pitchfork

"Underground Cult Hero" - artloversnewyork.com

"Roches videos throb with uncomfortably sweaty closeups, purloined pop-song soundtracks, and epilepsy-inducing gross-out humor" - Baltimore City Paper

About this Project

This is a project that I have just started and that I have much work left to do, but that I am very excited about. the goal is to control video and sound with my body, by interfacing EKG electrodes and the program MAX/MSP/Jitter. Here is a clip of the first experiments.

About this Project

Ultimate Reality is a live performance video piece 50 minutes in length, edited completely out of footage from the films of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is performed live with video, electronics and two drummers. We have toured it around the entire USA, Canada, and Denmark.