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2023
Intaglio
22” x 26”
A woman on a city street surrounded by trouble.
I use the grotesque and the comic to illustrate the inherent absurdity of the political and social constructs that run our lives and the great cost those structures exact on the individual and his/her environment. The structures of power, whether sexual, economic or the authoritarian threat of violence, can be fluid from one group of people to the next and resulting conflicts can inspire unpredictable imagery that raises questions about the way we construct society. The entitlement of the ruling class who can only see themselves as heroes allows for a subversion of some of the tropes of heroic fiction to deride their collective pretensions as well as our views of their dominance. The individual characters of each piece will be portrayed in a way so as not to reduce them to one- dimensional caricatures but to allow for the viewer to engage the work and the numerous micro-dramas that are implied by the work.
2023
Intaglio
22” x 26”
A woman on a city street surrounded by trouble.
I use the grotesque and the comic to illustrate the inherent absurdity of the political and social constructs that run our lives and the great cost those structures exact on the individual and his/her environment. The structures of power, whether sexual, economic or the authoritarian threat of violence, can be fluid from one group of people to the next and resulting conflicts can inspire unpredictable imagery that raises questions about the way we construct society. The entitlement of the ruling class who can only see themselves as heroes allows for a subversion of some of the tropes of heroic fiction to deride their collective pretensions as well as our views of their dominance. The individual characters of each piece will be portrayed in a way so as not to reduce them to one- dimensional caricatures but to allow for the viewer to engage the work and the numerous micro-dramas that are implied by the work.