Dino Diner: Equal Parts Jurassic and Juke Box

Kitsch, nostalgia, and absurdity come together over cheeseburgers and milkshakes, as each tiny time-traveling dino navigates the oddities of the modern world. Viewers are invited to imagine a world where dinosaurs never went extinct, they just discovered coffee!

Each playful mixed-media collage on canvas, starts with found diner images to which is added plastic dinosaurs, snarky speech bubbles, glitter, and more to create a chrome-trimmed, ketchup-bottled world of the classic 1950s.

These tiny, ridiculous dinosaurs—caught in moments of confusion, conversation, and cosmic mishap—become stand-ins for all of us trying to make sense of our daily lives. After all, who hasn’t had a “How did I get here?” kind of day?

A collision of epochs, they're campy and caffeinated. “Check [them out], please!”