I Thought He Was Just Dropping A Match Into An Empty Bottle...Until The Smoke Cleared

Jim uses candle smoke to create breathtaking images within empty bottles.

After coating the bottles with soot, he uses skewers and needles to wipe away and etch his picture-perfect landscapes.

“The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression."

The attention to detail is uncanny.

"When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread. As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories,” says Jim about his works of art.