All in all we are just another bill in their wallet, 2023. Mixed media on canvas - 2.03 X 1.65 m/ 6.7 X 5.5 feet.
Our politicians (detail)
Corporate media manipulation
Who are we becoming? Who are we enriching?
Money weighs more than truth in the justice scale (depicted as a rifle).
We are just another bill in their wallet...
(Detail)
Ms. Greed
Brothers and Sisters, 2024. Mixed media on canvas - 2.03 X 1.65 cm/ 6.7 X 5.4 feet.
We can help each other fight injustices.
The corporate media tries to cover up the horrors of the neo-Nazis.
The sun once again is depicted in my paintings as the symbol of hope.
The stylized embroidery expresses the strength of our cultures, bringing us together.
Breakthrough, 2020. Mixed media on canvas - 1.5 X 1.6 m / 4.9 X 5.2 feet.
COVID is over. Hands holding face masks break through the plexiglass. (plexiglass removed for photos due to reflection)
No more barriers, no more isolation.
Our culture, our foundation, was configured to fit these lonesome and difficult times.
Buildings depicted with newspapers as COVID news pervasively invaded our lives.
COVID took away our loved ones... my dear Mom was one of them.
The vaccine represented by the sun brings life back to our communities.
The sunlight sets us free.
Kintsugi, 2021. Mixed media on canvas - 1.22 X .91 m / 4 X 3 feet
Ancient Hawaiian belief - we are born pure, like a vessel full of light.
Corporate media - misinformation, and fake news, the rocks in our vessel.
Conglomerates' greed, inflicting conflicts around the world broke our vessel.
We can try to kintsugi our vessel of light.
Collaboration, mutual agreement, respect among countries.
Pangea
Justice = dignifying life for every Earth's citizen, and mindful use of our planet's resources.
Democratic Machine, 2021. Mixed media on canvas - 1.22 X .91 m/ 4 X 3 feet.
Who is pulling the trigger of violence? (Detail)
From 2018 to 2023, 1,073 people were wounded or killed in school shooting incidents.
Illegal immigrants are separated from their children.
01/06/21 Capitol Riot. Is the two party political system working for us?
Homelessness
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was signed in 1966
Health insurance profiting from our suffering.
The Imperial Throne - Above all and everything
Profit is above human lives. We are targeted as bolts for the "democratic" machine.
Raiz, 2019. Acrylic on paper - 45 X 61 cm / 17 x 24 in.