Drowning in the System as the Dream Begins to Collapse, 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 60 x 60 inches. In this piece, I encapsulate the feeling of drowning and being overwhelmed. I sought to conceptualize how anxieties and emotions—triggered by environment and circumstance—can suffocate us like water. Amidst this collapse, we summon all our strength to resist, to survive against the machinery of the system that seeks to consume us.
Nessun Dorma, 2025. Diptych. Oil and prosthetic eye on panel. Moonlight Sonata: 24 inch diameter (circular panel) Insomnia: 24 x 24 inches (square panel) Description: Nessun Dorma—“None shall sleep”—is a diptych exploring how the urban environment disrupts rest and shapes the emotional life of its inhabitants.
Translatio Doloris (Latin-Pain Redirection), 2025. Oil on panel - 24 x 24 inches. Translatio Doloris (Pain Redirection) captures the moment when pain is internalized and transformed. A figure, fierce yet vulnerable, bites into its own form—a visual metaphor for the complex process of absorbing trauma rather than allowing it to destroy. The dense, tactile surface amplifies the tension between resilience and self-inflicted endurance, evoking the silent battles fought within. This piece reflects the instinct to survive through the redirection of suffering, a necessary yet brutal strategy shaped by oppressive environments.
Philadelphia, 2025. Oil and gold leaf on panel. 24 x 24 inches.
As we Descend in Our Dreams we Silently Scream, 2024. Oil on Panel - 24 x 24 inches. This painting captures the silent anguish that lingers beneath the surface of consciousness. Sculpted in dense, black oil, a lion’s open mouth stretches into a soundless roar — its textured form nearly swallowed by darkness, while the interior of its mouth reveals an unexpected dreamscape of soft, iridescent colors. The tension between the restrained surface and the vivid interior evokes the human experience of suppressed fears and unspoken grief. As We Descend in Our Dreams We Silently Scream invites viewers to contemplate the quiet battles fought within, where pain and resilience coexist in silence.
Inside Joke (Diptych), 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - Panel 1: Sarcasm (24 x 24 inches) Panel 2: Satire (24 x 24 inches)
Urban Existentialism or Too Young to Think Think About Mortality, 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 24 x 24 inches. Urban Existentialism or Too Young to Think About Mortality captures the early confrontation with loss, fragility, and survival. A young lion, its luminous eyes filled with wary innocence, rests atop the decaying skull of a fallen predator. The tactile surface and muted tones evoke a landscape where life and death coexist without warning, mirroring the realities faced by youth in urban environments. This work reflects the premature awareness of mortality and the silent resilience demanded in spaces shaped by instability and unseen dangers.
The Veteran (Isolation), 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 36 x 60 inches
Vertigo, 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 24 x 24 inches
Vertigo (detail), 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 24 x 24 inches
Vertigo (detail), 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 24 x 24 inches
Spooked, 2024. Oil and gold leaf on panel - 20 x 24 inches
Stand Tall, 2023. Oil and gold leaf on canvas - 48 x 72 inches. Stand Tall serves as a visual homage to the survivors of historical atrocities — individuals who endured profound suffering and yet passed down strength, wisdom, and resilience. Rendered in textured black oil, a lone lion stands upright against a ghostly landscape, its gaze unwavering, its form emerging from mist and memory. The luminous eyes symbolize an inner light that persists despite hardship. As a companion piece to Zanzibar’s Gateway, this work honors the living legacy of those who overcame, reminding viewers that dignity and fortitude are woven into the lineage of survival.
Jealousy, 2023. Oil and gold leaf on Panel - 36 x 48 inches
The Creep, 2023. Oil and gold leaf on canvas - 16 x 20 inches
Courage and Loyalty, 2023. Oil and gold leaf on canvas - 16 x 20 inches
Zanzibar's Gateway, 2024. Description: Zanzibar’s Gateway is an augmented reality reconstruction of a slave chamber from Stone Town, Zanzibar — one of the world’s last and most haunting hubs of the transoceanic slave trade. Through this immersive facsimile, viewers are transported into a claustrophobic stone enclosure, confronting the stark conditions endured by countless men, women, and children. The quiet interior, pierced only by a single shaft of light, invites reflection on human resilience, loss, and memory. By using virtual space to access this historical site, Zanzibar’s Gateway creates a bridge between past and present, challenging viewers to acknowledge the invisible legacies that still shape our world. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Tunnel Vision, 2024. Description: This augmented reality work captures a fragmented, suspended memory: the experience of witnessing my father held at gunpoint during my early childhood. At the center of the virtual space floats an image — vulnerable yet frozen in time — surrounded by an uneasy void. The spatial dislocation mirrors the helplessness and confusion of that moment, evoking the dissonance between fear, innocence, and powerlessness. As users navigate the environment, they are placed in a liminal space between protection and danger, reflecting the fragile boundaries that shape memory and survival. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Tears of Sudan, 2024. Description: A virtual experience of a Nubian pyramid memorializing the conflict in Sudan and the suffering of its people. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Overwhelmed, 2024. Description: A virtual experience immersing the viewer in a shifting landscape of extended arms, engulfed in the darkness of an unseen virus. As the user moves in the space, the sense of isolation, vulnerability, and unseen contagion deepens, evoking the struggle for connection and survival in a destabilized world.. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Nosce Ipsum (Latin: Know Thyself), 2024. Description: A virtual experience of person discovering themselves. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Still Life, 2024. Description: A virtual experience with memory triggers of the artist being robbed at gunpoint for his shoes. It chronicles one of the many dangerous encounters the artist faced in his youth. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android.
Introspective Intersection, 2024. Description: Introspective Intersection revisits a pivotal moment in American history: the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. This augmented reality experience digitally recreates a truck similar to the one driven by a victim at the intersection of Florence and Normandie. On its bed, a stark billboard bears the message “Don’t Become the Thing You Hate”, urging reflection on cycles of violence, anger, and transformation. Through immersive technology, viewers are invited to stand at the crossroads of past and present, confronting the emotional weight of inherited trauma and the difficult responsibility of resilience. The piece asks a simple yet profound question: in the face of injustice, what do we choose to become?. Device: Smartphone or tablet. AR Platform: Hoverlay. Required Software: iOS or Android
What Lurks in the Darkness, 2005. Oil on Canvas - 36 x 48 inches.