Contact

Email Phil directly at iam@philinthecircle.com or use the form below.

Media

National and International News Features
Last Call with Carson Daly, The Discovery Channel, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN HLN, CNN International, The Rachael Ray Show, and CBS Early Show, Dr. Phil, CW's Online Nation, Oops TV(England), Japanese TBS, Clip Mania (Germany).

Local News Features
ABC 7 News (Denver), KING 5 News (Seattle), KIRO 7 News (Seattle), KOMO 4 News (Seattle), NWCN (Northwest Cable News), WCCO News (Minneapolis), KBRR news(Fargo), ABC 15 News(Phoenix)

Web
Yahoo People of the Web 2007, Yahoo's "The Most Memorable Web Videos of 2007", CNN.com live interviews with 3 written articles and 10 video features, The Grammy's, La Repubblica (Italian), City Pages, MinnPost. Over 25 million online video views

Radio
Radio Free Asia (South Korean), CBC (Canadian Public Radio), The Bee (England)

Selected Publications
Glamour Magazine (Germany), Five, Foam, and World Vision Magazine, Think Magazine, iSh, The Book LA, Kidsweek, Seattle PI, City on a Hill Press

For Hire

Phil has brought his artistic style to a wide scope of for-hire projects anywhere from being the official artist for the Grammy’s, providing artwork for Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum to being the creative and on screen talent for internet and TV advertising campaigns for top brands with worldwide campaigns.

Statement

I’m interested in trying to understand whole individuals and whole ideas through the fragments of perceptual memory, the sound bites, and the semiotic tokens collected by society and recollected by the individual. It’s the product of these carefully selected elements that multiplies out to a greater whole, and it’s in that product that I look for a more holistic understanding.

My present approach evolved out of what seemed at the time to be an artistic cul-de-sac: damage to the nerves in my forearm from the single-minded pursuit of pointillism. Driven to think of other ways to create art, I began pushing myself to experiment with new media: my torso, a tricycle, X-rays, dandelions, the Bible, viewers’ experiences, and so on. The selection of the medium became integral to the art, as much a part of the story and the holistic experience as the selected fragments themselves.

In bringing my work to the public I look to create a public dialog with art, frequently inviting the audience to contribute in some way, nearly always breaking apart the artistic process in order to make it connect to a more immediate reality through video that shows manipulation of the medium from fragments into a unified whole.