HYPERREALITY
These provocative hyperrealist depictions relate to the political and cultural deviations of societal decadence, its enigmatic imagery, and the aftermath of its tragic, ideological and insane consequences. Thematically, my paintings confront the corrupted human condition as a phenomenological medium that bears witness to historical evidence of the grotesque mistreatment of human beings in a hypersphere or hyperreality.

A PERSONAL OBSERVATION
I found uncanny similarities among the genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, Ethiopia, Haiti and Cambodia eerily uncanny, giving reason to pause on a very serious level. The aftermath of genocides and their unspeakable horrors are somehow consistently risen above by the strong will of survivors, despite human demoralization, physical devastation, and untold suffering. Genocides at the bloodstained hands of totalitarian regimes gone mad.

Dr. Gregory Stanton identified eight stages common to all genocides.