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Pandemic Currency: Necessities (July 2020) Mixed media on collage board30 x 12.75 inches (76.2 x 32.4 cm) COVID-19 Picnic Blanket (July 2020) Mixed media on collage board30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm) Collapsing into the Void (All Together Now) (September 2019) Mixed media on collage board28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm) The world is on fire. The destruction and constructions of human activities in the age of the 'Wastocene' are contrasted with the ecological vitality of non-human nature. This piece both critiques and praises mysticism and imagination, for their roles in getting us to this place, as well as for their potentials as vehicles out of here ...  Read more R.I.P. Marianne Williamson('s campaign) / The Divided States of America (January 2020) Mixed media on collage board28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm) This piece brings to attention the polarity of our world — throughout society, culture, and politics — both in the United States and globally. I also wish to highlight the paradoxical nature of 'spirituality, as both a sociological tool for reflecting on and coming to terms with the 'evil' or 'darkness' within all of us as well as the representation of a white, apolitical and amaterialist escapism ... Read more Total Entertainment Forever (March 2020) Mixed media on collage board30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm) This piece, titled after Father John Misty's song of the same name, seeks to highlight the gross disconnect between, on the one hand, our virtualized, sensationalized, distant appreciation of the natural world through the cultural phenomenon of nature shows, and, on the other, our annihilation and total disregard for our planet and ecosystems. More broadly, this piece seeks to critique the virtual realities we continue to create and live in, or, at the very least, name the fact that we are collectively moving into dissociated realities of a virtual nature. That is to say, that our realities are increasingly disconnected from the real world: environmentally, politically, socially. Nature shows are fake news ... Read more untitled (Mauna a Wakea) (October 2019) Mixed media on collage board 28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm) The indigenous people of Hawai’i have been protesting the construction of a telescope at their sacred mountain of Mauna a Wakea. I contrast the spiritual depravity, existential void, and communal emptiness of Western society and science with the ancient practices of indingeous people throughout the world — psychedelics ... Read more untitled (yosemite, the personal is political) (July 2019) Mixed media on collage board16 x 23.5 inches (41.9 x 59.7 cm) New Age spiritual healing practices and ecopsychology are juxtaposed with contemporary political issues. This piece represents my stance against spiritual practice for the sake of escaping the world ... Read more