where it began
Everyone's done Marilyn. That's the point. She's not a person anymore, she's a surface for projection. The hand isn't hiding - it's the only honest thing in the image.
Everyone's done Marilyn. That's the point. She's not a person anymore, she's a surface for projection. The hand isn't hiding - it's the only honest thing in the image.
Silkscreen and paint on canvas
That gesture of "please, enough" that becomes the performance itself. Used halftone because that's how we consumed her - through screens, through dots, through distance. The purple face wasn't planned. Mixed the wrong ratio of magenta to white, but it worked.
She's both there and not there. Bruised and elevated. The red background is heat and suffocation and spotlight all at once. She's immortal because we won't let her die, won't let her rest.
2024
"The hand that shields becomes the revelation"