Presence and Absence

34 x 48”, Carved wood, paint, dye, 2021.

Western male Iconography is 2-dimensional, simplified, incomplete.

When we revere and copy it without self-reflection, we too become incomplete.

We become part of a cycle of people who act and dress the part of stubborn, stunted anti-heroes who become ghosts in life, and voids in death

Many of my friends and family members died behind their scowls and callouses because help and rest were seen as weakness.

In the end they had no tools that could help them...