Themes dealing with individuality, community, propaganda, consumerism and spirituality prevail in my work. For example in the painting, Economy +Nothing, I question the real motivations of our economy by combining the recognizable images of the Wall Street bull, a symbol of power, money and greed, against the background of flying war machines and the ubiquitous, patriotic stars and stripes. With this combination of popular imagery, I utilized bold, saturated color to unsettle the viewer while subverting the images “media-tized” context.
I want to emote a type of collective experience shared in history with notions of nationalism, pride, neurotic fear and consumption. This embedded joint imagery presents an overview of time at one glance, as in advertising, while engaging the viewer in his/her own memories of history presented through mass media. Ultimately, I want my work to prod the viewer to form their own set of memes, outside the box of popular mass media and nationalist propaganda, while sharing honestly in our collective humanity.
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