Pop Tart

The more light-hearted ‘’Pop Tart’’ component aims to inspire the viewer to think about our tendency to over-consume and industrialize the ego. In a materialistic society that focuses on a self-absorbed me, it seems that we must either strive to be a consumer or in the public eye.

During my creative process, it is important for me to apply the concept of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”. As such, Black Series was created using recycled fashion magazines and/or other day to day recyclables not only to create art but in the hopes of encouraging viewers to ask themselves questions about the environment and their everyday consuming habits.

I distort the meaning of (sometimes iconic) images as well as intended advertising messages or trademarks. I play with textures and magazine graphics. I use black paint because I’m fascinated by the shade’s depth, richness, and everything it can evoke.

“Black, because it creates depth among other colors.” (Coco Chanel)

Black, so that my art may symbolically express an annihilation of all that could have been, all that we may have consumed, and the end of the world as it is.