Paradise Lost

Oil on wood, 24 × 20 in, 2024

This piece reimagines Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Eden, now wandering an economically depressed midwestern background. Lilith, understood in Jewish folklore as Adam’s first wife who refused submission, dominates Adam in the foreground wielding the serpent as a whip. Their fall from grace is reframed through economic decline, linking spiritual abandonment to class precarity, examining the persistence of myth within contemporary social realities, gendered power, and punishment.

Exhibitions:
2025 Few and Far Between Showcase, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO 
2025 University of Missouri Chancellor’s Arts Showcase, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO
2024 Cycles and Perpetuation, University of Missouri Bingham Commons, Columbia, MO