2025

In gathering my thoughts here for something, this work reflects on America’s slow descent into something both unfamiliar and eerily recognizable. Having lived in Panama for several years, during a period that deeply shaped this current collection of artwork. What once felt like a glimpse into the past—fragile institutions, strongmen, the illusion of progress—now mirrors the present. Returning to the U.S., I see familiar patterns: spectacle, decay, and the hollow performance of power.

In these paintings, the beautiful and the broken coexist. Time loops and collapses. Borrowing from the seductive polish of advertising and layering it with signs of cultural erosion. Commercial gloss meets historical residue. A banana republic aesthetics meets patriotic theater… As Tomasz Płudowski writes: “Style over substance. Image over issues. Lies over facts. Distractions over policy.”

Rather than offer resolution, the work holds contradiction. Meaning emerges slowly—between fragments, in the tension, in the flicker of recognition.