Jacob Hashimoto was born in Greeley, Colorado. He earned his BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

Grass Green and a Little Bit of Air
(2006)

Broken Red Circuit
(2006)

Karin Davie is a Canadian artist who got her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now lives in NYC:

Pushed, Pulled, Depleted & Duplicated #1
(2002)

Between My Eye and Heart No. 1
(2004)

ps - What about the diary of Edward Robb Ellis?