About the Artist
As an artist, my work encapsulates a personal perspective of politics and poverty through a representational exploration in the psychological and anthropological human behaviors within impoverished communities in the United States. The narratives created through drawing and painting allow art to act as a space for progressive discussions. What I have concluded through research and personal experiences is that governments release primitive forces in human beings. It’s important to understand the power structure underlying the social order of the world we live in. bell hooks speaks about an imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to help us understand the systems that encompass the nature of domination that many of us are forced to face every day (hooks, 2000). It is a contagious mental illness of disordered desire that is normalized in our society. It is important to identify and self-interrogate what my contribution is to the oppressive forces that dominate and stifle progress for others while also understanding how, I too, am oppressed.
