Change | Working with Resources

This painting illustrates a sense of harmony as resources are accessible to all, it is an idealized working wheel. The yellow wheel represents community, prosperity and well-being and suggests a rotational symmetry advocating progress and decision making. The child, symbolizing education, is prioritized and protected from overwhelming negative external obstacles by being inset the wheel graphic. The use of an inclined horizon line and minimal graphics represent improvement, organization and opportunity.

Collection: MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) investigates topics of social mobility and reveals the inherent contradictions between the idealized steps to prosperity and the often harsh reality of climbing the soci-economic ladder with limited resources. Going beyond merely exposing the discrepancy between resources and opportunity, the work alludes to the sense of community that families are able to create within grinding conditions of material hardship. By illustrating a labyrinth of social and political structures, the insightful series is a shrill outcry against the stereotypes of the poor and a sobering real-life perspective of moving out of the dysfunctional cycles.

Medium: The paintings are coated with a malleable texture of wax, representing changing circumstances and preservation. The use of distressed collage is integrated for the purpose of storytelling, cross cultural symbolism and to represents obstacles, barriers and erosion of resources.