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This is the "moment in time" before someone sprouts wings, done in a surrealist-influenced style. Angels are often associated with beauty and grace, but this angel appears in unnatural colors and appears to be in pain, turning the typical narrative on its head.

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This is a humorous comment on the veneration and near deification of older artists by younger ones. I used the very formal style of Flemish portrait painting to contrast with the irreverent use of a skeleton.

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This piece is meant to capture a moment of disgust. The yellow color of the skin implies a sense of sickness, and the pattern of the dress recalls the prim propriety of the 50's.

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The way the mannequins dominate the composition represents the way that beauty standards can dominate people's lives.

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This person is alone with their thoughts, and wastes away of their own accord. They are waiting for something, but can't take care of themselves in the meantime.

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The hands and ties are drawn in the same string-like texture, commenting on how the person is limiting themselves. They yearn for freedom, but they are the only one who can give it to themselves.

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This is meant to represent the conflict between nature and technology. The mountain scene is serene and natural, but is interrupted by garish, brutal glitch lines and is inverted in a way that appears to make it float in an undetermined time and space.

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This work is meant to represent the hand of Mephistopheles tempting Faust with riches. Mephistopheles, the devil, has no face, because he is merely a symbol for human greed.

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The main concept of this work is seeing someone mid-transformation from a beautiful woman to a monster. Black paper is meant to convey the sense of nighttime, when the full moon can rise.

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The map implies travel while the forward stare implies immutability.

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This painting is meant to show a personal struggle with gender identity. Gender dysphoria includes a strong desire to alter they way one's body is assigned at birth. The hands are blue, as they are one of my most masculine features, and they attempt to pry and transform stomach and hips, a typically feminine feature.