CURRENT PAINTINGS

I CAN'T MAKE MY WORLD RIGHT

A series of new works depicting the human condition.

ABASEMENT OF DOLLS

These images are a social message which depicts the sexual conditioning and exploitation of females. Many of us fall victim to this on many different levels, from the moulding of young girls, groomed to become just mere ornaments and sexual objects in order to appeal to and gratify males ... to the obsessive pursuit of self-beautification, fueled by the media's ideal of physical perfection, something that is both unrealistic and unobtainable that can also have detrimental effects ranging from insecurity to eating disorders and plastic surgery.

My primary vexation lies within the realms of pornography, something that has become so socially acceptable, it beggars belief! Even "playboy" merchandise is now aimed at girls as young as eight. Playboy is not a cute bunny, it is a global pornographic business which debases and exploits thousands of young women. If people knew of the horrendous logistics behind this atrocious industry, I'm sure that they would consider it both abhorrent and intolerable.

THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO TALK ABOUT

These "things" that occur day in, day out to thousands of people who cannot talk about them because firstly, there can never be total closure for the victim—because the psychological pain and trauma remains, exacerbated by secondary victimization, primarily stigmatization, isolation, abandonment and condemnation—and secondly, the lack of knowledge and compassion of people, many of which are of the "just world hypothesis"—those that believe that the world is intrinsically fair and do not wish to believe the callousness that so many humans can inflict on others. They would rather sweep those "unpleasantries" under their fairytale rugs.

I hope to be a voice on the victims'/survivors' behalf, so I dedicate these paintings to them.

OLDER PAINTINGS