The reality of our current cultural landscape feels to me entirely surreal. In this frontier, I find it most compelling to ‘illustrate’ our absurd collective experience. Like a collage, these absurd realms easily accommodate one another into a single picture plane. The subject matter of my work largely concerns itself with my growing disillusionment in the American ‘dream’.  By forfeiting my own image, my portraits explore the dynamics between spectacle and spectator, the powerful and the powerless, the believer and non-believer. The paintings are fantasies that are highly critical and cynical of our social complacency.  Out of my appropriation of American culture, I explore the idea of redemption as it relates to both personal and societal moral crises. Using beauty as a lure, I rework the traditional binary of good and evil toward a more pluralistic end.