Based in Rhode Island, Kevin Haslam often allows one discipline to bleed into another. His fiction examines family, work, emotional inheritance, and the quiet negotiations that shape ordinary lives. His visual work uses portraiture, mixed media, found commercial ephemera, and altered artifacts to explore cultural memory, concealment, value, and revision. His music ranges from guitar-driven alternative rock to more theatrical, conceptual projects built around invented characters and interconnected worlds.

His recent literary work includes The Cotton Candy Machine, a darkly comic novel about usefulness, boundaries, family, and institutional pressure, and The Quiet Parts, a collection of short fiction concerned with the small decisions and private tensions that accumulate around everyday life.

As a musician and songwriter, Haslam has spent decades recording and performing with The Parker Star Band, following earlier work with Big Sticker. His newer project, Dick Twister & The Cotton Candy Machine, extends the fictional world of The Cotton Candy Machine into music—part character study, part performance, part cultural hallucination.

His visual practice ranges from portraiture and landscape to assemblage and found-object work. Through altered commercial materials, collectibles, postage, packaging, printed fragments, paint, paper, and other recovered surfaces, he treats cultural debris as something closer to an archive: material already carrying histories of use, value, longing, and circulation.

Haslam’s work is less interested in separating disciplines than in seeing what happens when they collide. A novel becomes an album. A souvenir becomes an artwork. An old recording becomes an archive. A discarded object becomes evidence. House of Has exists to keep those collisions visible.