“Peer Competition | Cracking the Stereotypes” questions privilege and its role in shaping access to opportunity. The work extends beyond exposing the imbalance between resources and mobility; it reflects on the significance of family and support networks as anchors in navigating today’s socio-economic landscape.

Part of the MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) collection, this piece investigates the realities of social mobility and the contradictions between idealized prosperity and lived experience. Through a visual labyrinth of social and political structures, the series confronts stereotypes of poverty and offers a sobering view of endurance within systems of inequity. It honors the resilience and community that thrive even within material hardship.

The surface is coated with a malleable texture of wax, symbolizing change and preservation. Distressed collage layers serve as storytelling devices; representing obstacles, erosion, and the fragile balance between aspiration and survival.