Series: Social Distortion
Fatima
Oil on canvas, 2026 · 36 x 24 in (91 x 61 cm) · Custom black floater frame
A portrait fractured by war, a gaze that remains whole.
Her name is Fatima Hassouna, a Palestinian photojournalist whose work documented civilian life during the Gaza war. She was killed alongside members of her family in an Israeli airstrike on their Gaza City home on April 16, 2025. Her fragmented portrait reflects a reality fractured by war, while her unwavering gaze remains whole: a symbol of the witness who continues to see, record, and preserve. Architectural passages, stairs, clouds, and shifting geometric forms evoke memory, displacement, and the passage between presence and absence. Fatima is ultimately about visibility: the responsibility to remember those whose lives might otherwise become statistics, and the enduring power of images and stories to carry a human life beyond its disappearance.
Dorian
Oil on canvas, 2026 · 36 x 36 in (91 x 91 cm) · Custom black floater frame
Not changing into someone else, but becoming the self that was already there.
Dorian is a portrait of becoming: not of changing into someone else, but of bringing the physical body closer to a self that was already there. The powerful body in the foreground contrasts with a distant silhouette framed by arches and stairs, suggesting the journey toward a once-imagined self, while the Venezuelan landscape connects Dorian to origin and memory.
Hayden
Oil on canvas, 2026 · 60 x 36 in (152 x 91 cm) · Custom black floater frame
Not a before and after, but a layered journey toward existing authentically.
Hayden explores the tension between the body we inhabit, the way the world perceives us, and the person we understand ourselves to be. Rather than depicting transition as a simple before and after, it presents it as an intimate, layered process of self-recognition: a journey through distortion, uncertainty, and transformation toward the freedom to exist authentically.