Created from hand painted collage elements, the painting creates the illusion of abstract strokes and movement to surround and flow through the figure creating a veil making his physicality and presence more elusive and less stable. The portrait was interpreted from a real social profile. I am interested in the blurring of public and private and how social media has been a great strides in activism on many fronts that might be considered good or bad. How has social media liberated the LGBTQ community? And how do we use it to continue the progress of various causes and methods to combat misinformation and discrimination.

Anonymous Social media Portrait Series Appropriated from the Scruff app. Oil, acrylic, spray paint and monotype collage.
How are anonymous social and adult media apps changing the mechanics of socialization, language and the sexual dynamics of interaction in a tech savvy generation growing up in an era where HIV is medically treatable and appears to be less of the death sentence that it once was?
I am interested in how social media has opened channels of communication for closeted, Bi and transgender communities as they explore and share commonalities of sexual identity and desire.