All paintings are original and based on important lessons Joey has learned while in the presence of nature.




(joey-with-a-backwards-y) is a painter and a writer.
(NEW) HAPPY PLACE – Original Collection
ALL IS WORMS – Original Collection
HOW TO BUILD A HUMAN–Preview Book
Each work serves to explore the idea that all is one, cough, cough… I mean all is worms.
In San Francisco, a covert startup called the Rebirth Project has just performed the world’s first human resurrection. The problem is, they’re out of cash.
To save the project, a biotech mogul buys a controlling stake, and only because she has just lost her son to a tragic drunk-driving suicide. Unwilling to accept death as his final destiny, her unrelenting expectations bare down on a team as they try to build the impossible.
Only one person suspects something sinister, and it’s the deceased’s AA sponsor, Hector Herrera. On forced sobriety leave from the SFPD and living out of his truck, Hector follows a hunch that leads him deep into the grotesque underbelly of Silicon Valley’s longevity elite. Through near future tech and wily characters, Hector faces the blurry line between life and death until he’s forced to
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