The Moon Also Rises (2021-)

this series examines man’s relationship to land, and the binary gendering of nature that has shaped it. After centuries of exploring and exploiting and calling it destiny, man (cis, white) has used up the planet’s resources, leaving it on the verge of a meltdown. Instead of taking care of “mother earth”, he’s going to get some “space”. And while most men aren’t planning interstellar escape routes and emitting a nation’s worth of greenhouse gasses, they do often invest in and enable those that do, prioritizing personal wealth over greater good. By painting aspirational male bodies that symbolize traditional ideas of strength and morphing them into the land, they become passive hurdles that disrupt their surroundings. Beautiful but useless obstacles, weighed down and dominated by the elements around them

The Moon Also Rises #1, 62"x73", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #2, 46"x36", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #3, 48"x36", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #4, 48"x36", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #5, 32"x25", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #6, 30"x30", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #7, 30"x30", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #8, 30"x30", oil on canvas

The Moon Also Rises #9, 25"x32", oil on canvas