Privacy does not exist when all facets of self are transparent.

My work explores the panoptic qualities of current social life and how it affects human behavior. The constant weight of this overreaching gaze heralds social surveillance that pressures performance, imposing crippling self-awareness. With a secondary world resting on the internet, we are split between constant viewership and real-world privacy; the more we merge our lives with public online spaces the more we entangle them in an all-knowing system of incredible voyeuristic strength.

Playing with these qualities, my work seeks to reclaim autonomy and viewership by accentuating the relationship between the onlooker and the painted subject. My paintings are an obsessive ferment of vibrant colors, patterns, and maximal compositions that fill the space with figures of steadfast attitude and layered broken perspective. I aim to personify the spontaneous and often contradictory human condition in opposition to production and perfectionism. Humor and oddness twist social roles by intertwining scenes of mundane privacy with layered abnormalities that explore how social dynamics change when under the pressure of constant scrutiny.