Masks and Monsters
In this series I playfully and specifically explore our human struggle with identity. The ancient questions of essentialism in philosophy; the essence of a thing vs. the image it conveys. I wonder about our penchant for social performance and the masks we hide behind. I like the idea of the monsters as equal parts guardian and our own dark dimension. By painting both monster and human form I blur the lines between what's hidden and what's in front of us. Each painting is a representation of how my imagination assembles impression, memory and experience into visual form. As a series of work it becomes a narrative on the dynamics of viewership. It underlines the liquid boundary between seen and unseen, literal and psychological space and internal vs. external identity.