Oblivion

Oil on canvas, 24 × 24 in, 2025

This piece is a meditation on the concept of hell. Understood at the time of Jesus, a reform rabbinical preacher, to describe a literal place outside of Jerusalem or a metaphor representing absence or separation from God. The figures inhabiting this space are derived from photos of deported prisoners at El Salvador’s CECOT maximum-security facility, which entered broader public circulation during 2025 featuring inmates displayed en masse in positions of control and humiliation. Their invocation confronts the mechanisms through which power enforces suffering and the disposability of others.

Exhibitions:
2025 Few and Far Between Showcase, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO