60” x 48", acrylic, pumice, polymer emulsion, clay, plum branches, and epoxy resin on canvas, 2024

Emergence

June 21, 2024

Evaluation Under A Strict Scrutiny Standard Of Review

November 22, 2021

In the field of law, strict scrutiny is the highest standard of review that a court will use to evaluate the constitutionality of governmental discrimination. To pass strict scrutiny, the legislature must have passed the law to further a compelling governmental interest, and it must have narrowly tailored the law to achieve that interest.

In this piece, I used the concept of strict scrutiny, following a similar definition but with more irrational results, in expressing an evaluation of a person, the depth of that person’s being, and what compels that person to think and feel in various ways, among other things.

48” x 40”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021

Two People Laughing

November 9, 2021

The masks are off. Something deeper than just laughing together, there can be a crudeness, gruesomeness, sloppiness, or creepiness in the act, as it does not always reveal pure joy but sometimes contradictions in our presence, inner beings, and psychologies. Especially true when viewed in the light of what is happening in the world today.

Was

November 9, 2021

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