Angels Walk With Me

Oil on wood, 24 × 48 in, 2025

This painting uses the metaphor of herding to symbolize how women are ceremoniously socialized into roles of submission and conformity through ritual and doctrine. The title and horse imagery is in reference to David Lynch’s 1992 film, Fire Walk With Me, which explores the impact of evil, focusing on the darkness of cycles of abuse that feed on innocence. The mass of women and girls clad in sacramental dress, are used throughout to emphasize conditioning and indoctrination. Central to the herd is a riderless white horse, Biblically associated with purity and victory, particularly in Revelation, where Christ returns to triumph over evil. Here, the horse is riderless, the herd aimlessly gathered embody a meaningless cycle of guilt, shame, and devotion in the absence of deliverance.

Exhibitions and Awards: 
2025 Few and Far Between Showcase, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO
2025 UM Undergraduate Visual Art and Design Showcase, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO
2025 Serendipity Gallery Exhibition Award, Serendipity Salon and Gallery, Columbia, MO