Faces of 2020: "Refreshing My Anxiety"

First portrait in the series that I started right around Election Day. Man, that first week of November was a wild ride, huh? I had this paper towel I was using to clean the paint off my brushes while working on another project and I kinda liked how it looked when I was done working, like some human head twisting and coming apart. Kinda how I imagine a lot of people felt glued to their tv's, computers or phones back in early November. 

 

Faces of 2020: "Static Sensations"

Second portrait in the series. Along with George Romero's "...of the Dead" series, David Cronenberg's Videodrome has been on my mind a lot as well. It's one of those movies where you can understand if audiences viewed it as some far-fetched science fiction in 1983 because watching in 2020 feels like it was made for our current relationship with technology/media.

 

Faces of 2020: "I Can Almost Taste The Freedom"

First piece I'm posting in a series of portraits I've been working on the last month. I watched all of the George Romero "...of the Dead" series over the summer and a lot of the ways he critiques rampant consumerism in the form of a zombie apocalypse has been on my mind a lot lately. I think, just short of eating people alive, we came about as close as possible to resembling the zombies in Dawn of the Dead this year.