Painting Series:
In this series of paintings I collapse two highly legible forms of cultural representation to compose the paintings. Each picture has specific characters rendered in acrylic on watercolor paper that reference Social Realism. The environment that figures exist in look like the background sets of American cartoons from the 1950's such as Roadrunner and Speedy Gonzalez.
In the paintings I conflate notions of representation and cultural identity and investigate their relationship to one another. More often than not, I find that our perception of reality is heavily influenced by pre-idealized conceptions. Through these paintings I intend to start a dialog about the ability humans have to construct realities that can become so powerful that they surpass natural law.
In the paintings I conflate notions of representation and cultural identity and investigate their relationship to one another. More often than not, I find that our perception of reality is heavily influenced by pre-idealized conceptions. Through these paintings I intend to start a dialog about the ability humans have to construct realities that can become so powerful that they surpass natural law.
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