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.

how it lives

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.

30" x 24" Artist studio

emergence

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.

IMMORTAL - Gesture

IMMORTAL

Gesture

2024

"The hand that shields becomes the revelation"