The uncanny personas we adopt, encounter, and fear to survive capitalism.

2025, abstract series

After seven performative years in the unnerving world of New York City advertising, I finally escaped, compelled to visualize the disorienting experience.

Corporate America exposes the elitist greed at the top and brings attention to the manipulation administered at the bottom. This series challenges the vile pursuit of profit over people by shedding light on workforce grooming while confronting my past role within the toxic system.

Bootstraps the Clown, mixed media on stretched canvas panel

From Bootstraps the Clown to Positive Feedback, each artwork embodies memories of unusual corporate culture and the people that shape it.

Colors inspired by the CMYK and RGB spectrums reference my career background as a graphic designer, while alluding to the artificiality and overstimulation of corporate America. Sharpies smear against hyper-synthetic paint, creating an unsettling tension that mimics intense mentalities and high-stress work environments.

Positive Feedback, mixed media on canvas panel

Cheeky poems pair with artworks to represent the cult-like values corporations implement — to brainwash their employees into a false sense of closeness, not unlike a dysfunctional family. Poems aim to reveal the manipulative tactics and materialistic mindsets harnessed across members within the company structure.