Don’t Feed the Sculptures No. I

A chaotic, vibrant crowd of interlocking faces. Playful and tense, it explores spectacle, identity, and the hunger for attention.

The “Don’t Feed the Sculptures” series began with a fractured black-and-white figure created after someone close to the artist survived a serious accident. What started as a response to fragility has since expanded into a full body of 35 works on canvas and paper—most rendered in oil stick and glitter on canvas, with the remaining pieces developed as mixed-media works on paper.

In the more recent paintings, the figures appear dressed for an elegant gathering, yet their forms remain composed of shifting, broken shapes. Some bodies seem to separate, others merge, blurring the line between falling apart and coming together. The works suggest a quiet interdependence—how individual fragments can overlap, connect, and even strengthen one another.