In these works, language becomes a weapon that has survived its own battlefield. The clipped declarations—“WHO ACTUALLY LOST THE SEX WARS?,” “WHEN SEX BECOMES A WEAPON,” “TIME-LIMITED, SCOPE-LIMITED ACTION”—arrive not as fresh dispatches but as exhausted philosophical veterans of mass circulation. Repeated thousands of times across newspapers, magazines, and television crawls, these phrases have shed their original urgency and congealed into a strange formal beauty. Their cadence is oddly comforting, as if the very familiarity of political and cultural clichés might absolve us from confronting what they actually describe.
THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE, SHEESH_
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 2025 | 16’’ X 20’’ IN
SEX UNDER SOCIALISM
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS | 2025 | 36’’ X 24’’ IN
Porn Habit, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas | 36 × 48 in
CALL OF THE WILD
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 2025 | 20’’ X 16’’ IN
FOUR MINUTES AND THIRTY THREE SECONDS OF SILENCE AFTER MOAB
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 2025 | 36’’ X 48’’ IN
Suspended on immaculate reds that flare like emergency lights and blues that mimic bureaucratic calm, they take on the cool authority of secular icons. The canvases resemble doctrinal tablets for a society that no longer believes in doctrines but continues to follow their tonal logic. By isolating these sentences, we want to show how our most violent metaphors such as the war on drugs, sex, on compexity have migrated into everyday speech, numbing us even as they promise clarity.
This numbing is echoes physically in the conceptual sculptures: grenades swinging like Newton’s cradle, bullets dispensed like candy. Here, the aesthetics of violence are rendered with unnerving precision. The objects do not explode; they tick, they click, they behave with the polite choreography of office toys. The result is an indictment wrapped in poise: a reminder that contemporary life often encounters violence as design, as pattern, as consumable spectacle.
Taken together, the works form a single question that remains quiet, insistent, and unresolved: What happens to a society when its moral vocabulary becomes decorative?
GAMBLER’S FALLACY
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 2025 | 36’’ X 48’’ IN
LINES OVERHEARD AT ART BASE
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 2025 | 36’’ X 48’’ IN
SEX WARS
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS
2025 | 16’’ X 20’’ IN
LIMITED TIME OFFER
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
2025 | 48’’ X 48’’ IN
CASUAL SEX
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS | 2025 | 48’’ X 48’’ IN
DEADLY INTENTIONS
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS | 2025 | 20’’ X 16’’ IN
DISCOUNTED ITEMS
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 2025 | 16’’ X 20’’ IN
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS | 2025 | 36’’ X 24’’ IN
COLD TASTE OF DESIRE
GUMBALL MACHINE, BULLETS REPLICA
2025
CRADLE OF CONSEQUENCES
CONCRETE, PLUMBING STEEL PIPES, STEEL REPLICA HAND GRENADES, STEEL VIRES
2024 | 21’’ X 23’’ X 15’’ IN