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.

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Anonymous Social media Portrait Series Appropriated from the Scruff App. Oil, acrylic, spray paint and monotype collage
This is a portrait of a trans acquaintance that I met through a social media app. Over a period of a year or so, I chatted and exchanged texts sharing and learning more of their personality and life. By fracturing and weaving multiple views of the same anonymous selfie from a social phone app, I am interested in what is projected by the users profile and what we perceive of them through the images and text interactions. To what degree has social media changed the quality and course of human interaction?