Designing life as it permits.
Exploring Nevada as it stands.

I lost half my vision and found my focus. Welcome to Wandering Nevada Soul, where the bad moments become creative fuel.

You only keep what you have by giving it away. When the screen went wonky and my eyes stopped cooperating in 2025, I had to change how I built things. I didn't stop. Now, I make impossible objects, explore raw landscapes, and just abide. Let's build something out of the dust.

The whole story, one eye and all

Two things to look at

Jesse Montero with copper pencil rigs on his fingers and a pencil held across one eye

The Lab

Ten pencils at once. Copper finger rigs I built so my hands could keep up with my head. Cubes that shouldn't hold together. Fire, wood, a 3D printer that runs all night. This is where the work gets made.

Into the Lab

Acrylic painting of a tree bridging a canyon under a blue Nevada sky

The Trail

Thirty years of construction, one eye, a sober date I keep. The road from Wellington to here runs through dust and a lot of quiet. Nevada as it stands, not as it's sold.

Walk the road

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Most days I post what's on the bench. Rigs, cubes, a drive out past the last fence. Ten thousand of you keep showing up. That still gets me.

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Drop 01. Impossible, Vol. 1

Numbered. Made and shipped from Yerington by Battle Born Clothing. When it closes, it's gone.

  • Ten-pencil tee The rig, drawn with the rig. Water-based ink on a heavyweight tee. $32
  • Impossible-cube leather patch cap Laser-burned leather, the cube that won't resolve. Sewn on in the shop. $38
  • Cube coin Pocket-size. Something to turn over when the day goes sideways. $14

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Pre-order opens soon. One email when it does, one when it ships. Nothing else.

Ships within 3 weeks of drop close. No returns on correct items; free remake if we got it wrong.