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The Human Condition
Created 2024/2025
Blending surrealism, symbolism, and figurative sculpture, this series explores the emotional and spiritual cost of being human in modern America.
Each piece transforms complex societal issues—such as consumerism, mental health, hypersexuality, labor exploitation, and religious identity—into visceral three-dimensional forms.
The sculptures use body language, scale, and metaphor to reveal how people bend, break, endure, and resist under invisible pressures. Rooted in contemporary fine art and cultural commentary, this work invites viewers to examine the role people play in sustaining the very systems that constrain them, challenge their ethics, and shape their sense of self.
Rooted In Work
A Depiction of modern office life as mental and emotional captivity.
A person slumped over a desk surrounded by coffee cups and a piggy bank illustrates the psychological toll of cubicle culture.
Combining conceptual art, social critique, and symbolic realism, the work reflects on labor exploitation, systemic stress, and the commodification of human life.
A person slumped over a desk surrounded by coffee cups and a piggy bank illustrates the psychological toll of cubicle culture.
Combining conceptual art, social critique, and symbolic realism, the work reflects on labor exploitation, systemic stress, and the commodification of human life.
Let’s Make A Deal
Exploring systemic oppression, government corruption, and social control.
Figures trapped in a cage while officials shake hands above transform political power into figurative art with symbolic realism. Using contemporary sculpture and conceptual storytelling, the piece interrogates the complicity of people in sustaining exploitative structures.
Figures trapped in a cage while officials shake hands above transform political power into figurative art with symbolic realism. Using contemporary sculpture and conceptual storytelling, the piece interrogates the complicity of people in sustaining exploitative structures.
Lady Liberty
Lady Liberty with a torch at her feet, questioning the meaning of justice and freedom.
Combining contemporary sculpture, conceptual art, and symbolic realism, the work critiques performative patriotism and societal complicity in inequality.
Combining contemporary sculpture, conceptual art, and symbolic realism, the work critiques performative patriotism and societal complicity in inequality.
Kneeling On The Neck
Capturing power, rage, and historical reflection.
A red Viking stands on a police officer’s neck, using conceptual art, contemporary sculpture, and symbolic realism to interrogate insurrection, political violence, and the choices people make in moments of chaos.
A red Viking stands on a police officer’s neck, using conceptual art, contemporary sculpture, and symbolic realism to interrogate insurrection, political violence, and the choices people make in moments of chaos.
With One Hand On The Bible
Critiquing the intersection of religion, politics, and gun violence.
A MAGA-hat-wearing shooter standing on a Bible exposes the dangerous overlap of faith and extremist ideology. Using symbolic realism and provocative installation art, the work challenges viewers to examine the moral contradictions of society and the role people play in perpetuating destructive cultural narratives.
A MAGA-hat-wearing shooter standing on a Bible exposes the dangerous overlap of faith and extremist ideology. Using symbolic realism and provocative installation art, the work challenges viewers to examine the moral contradictions of society and the role people play in perpetuating destructive cultural narratives.
Manipulation
Examining media influence and algorithmic control.
A person sits in a chair watching TV while a larger figure manipulates them like a puppet, transforming societal manipulation into symbolic realism and contemporary sculpture.
The work critiques people’s complicity in consuming and perpetuating controlled narratives.
A person sits in a chair watching TV while a larger figure manipulates them like a puppet, transforming societal manipulation into symbolic realism and contemporary sculpture.
The work critiques people’s complicity in consuming and perpetuating controlled narratives.
Rebirth
Transformation and resilience are at the heart of Rebirth, a surreal sculpture where a flower grows from the base of a half-figure. The work symbolizes the potential for growth and renewal after destruction, both individually and collectively.
What If God Were One Of Us
Imagining a godlike figure resting in the clouds, questioning fabricated perceptions of divinity. Through symbolic realism and contemporary art techniques, the piece critiques religious constructs and invites viewers to examine their own participation in worship, morality, and cultural belief systems.
Disconnected From The Cross
Examining the gap between religious belief and practice.
The work invites reflection on how people engage with spirituality, morality, and cultural expectation.
The work invites reflection on how people engage with spirituality, morality, and cultural expectation.
Hyper-Sex
Exploring hypersexuality and the commercialization of desire in media and pornography.
A person sits atop a giant banana topped with whipped cream and a cherry, turning erotic spectacle into figurative art with social commentary.
The work merges contemporary sculpture, pop surrealism, and symbolic storytelling to interrogate the impact of media on human intimacy and cultural values.
A person sits atop a giant banana topped with whipped cream and a cherry, turning erotic spectacle into figurative art with social commentary.
The work merges contemporary sculpture, pop surrealism, and symbolic storytelling to interrogate the impact of media on human intimacy and cultural values.
Built On Their Backs
Exposing historical and systemic oppression.
A king sits on a throne carried by two crawling figures, transforming exploitation into symbolic realism and contemporary art.
The work critiques capitalism, slavery, and human labor, inviting viewers to reflect on the role of people in sustaining power and hierarchy.
A king sits on a throne carried by two crawling figures, transforming exploitation into symbolic realism and contemporary art.
The work critiques capitalism, slavery, and human labor, inviting viewers to reflect on the role of people in sustaining power and hierarchy.
Bombs Away (In The Clouds)
Symbolizing the tension between peace and destruction.
Using contemporary sculpture, symbolic realism, and conceptual art, the work critiques radicalization, human conflict, and the role of people in perpetuating cycles of violence.
Using contemporary sculpture, symbolic realism, and conceptual art, the work critiques radicalization, human conflict, and the role of people in perpetuating cycles of violence.
The Golden Toilet
Critiquing political spectacle, privilege, and media obsession.
An orange figure sits on a lavish toilet scrolling their phone, transforming absurdity into conceptual and contemporary sculpture with symbolic realism.
The piece questions the role of people in validating performative authority and shallow power.
An orange figure sits on a lavish toilet scrolling their phone, transforming absurdity into conceptual and contemporary sculpture with symbolic realism.
The piece questions the role of people in validating performative authority and shallow power.
Weight of the World
A small yellow figure pushing an oversized globe, symbolizing the crushing pressures society places on individuals. Combining conceptual art, social critique, and symbolic realism, the piece reflects on the emotional and psychological burden people bear under political, economic, and cultural expectations. It is a visual exploration of resilience, systemic stress, and the human condition.
Waiting On The World To Change
A green giant sitting next to a fragile flower, symbolizing hope amidst environmental destruction.
The work reflects on climate change, societal inaction, and the role of people in shaping the future.
The work reflects on climate change, societal inaction, and the role of people in shaping the future.
Missing
Addressing disappearance, loss, and societal neglect.
Merging conceptual art, symbolic realism, and contemporary sculpture. The piece highlights how people respond—or fail to respond—to missing individuals, violence, and societal injustice.
Merging conceptual art, symbolic realism, and contemporary sculpture. The piece highlights how people respond—or fail to respond—to missing individuals, violence, and societal injustice.
There’s Ghosts In This Room
A haunting conceptual sculpture confronting the epidemic of school shootings in America.
A shooter stands atop a school desk surrounded by scattered supplies, transforming trauma into figurative art that questions societal complacency and the political failure to protect children.
This work blends social critique, contemporary sculpture, and symbolic realism to force viewers to reflect on collective responsibility and the ghosts that linger in everyday spaces.
A shooter stands atop a school desk surrounded by scattered supplies, transforming trauma into figurative art that questions societal complacency and the political failure to protect children.
This work blends social critique, contemporary sculpture, and symbolic realism to force viewers to reflect on collective responsibility and the ghosts that linger in everyday spaces.
The Problem With Pregnancy
Addressing the high cost, trauma, and control inherent in the modern medical-industrial complex.
A woman cradling her pregnant belly contemplates the intersections of healthcare, capitalism, and bodily autonomy. Using figurative sculpture and symbolic realism, the work critiques societal structures that exploit vulnerability while transforming personal experience into public reflection.
A woman cradling her pregnant belly contemplates the intersections of healthcare, capitalism, and bodily autonomy. Using figurative sculpture and symbolic realism, the work critiques societal structures that exploit vulnerability while transforming personal experience into public reflection.
Bodies for Minerals
Examining the human cost of industrial mining. iPhones protrude from a pile of lifeless bodies, blending conceptual art, contemporary sculpture, and symbolic realism to critique exploitation, technology, and global labor inequities.
The work challenges viewers to confront the hidden price people pay for convenience.
The work challenges viewers to confront the hidden price people pay for convenience.
Through The Door
Exploring immigration, borders, and human agency.
A yellow figure runs through an open door while a blue figure helps and a red figure pulls back, blending symbolic realism, contemporary sculpture, and social critique to examine the choices people make, the barriers they face, and the morality of exclusion.
A yellow figure runs through an open door while a blue figure helps and a red figure pulls back, blending symbolic realism, contemporary sculpture, and social critique to examine the choices people make, the barriers they face, and the morality of exclusion.
Riveara At The Grave Site
An orange figure lounging among skulls, critiquing war, political apathy, and human disregard.
Bombs Away
Radicalization, nationalism, and the spectacle of violence. A figure sits atop a nuclear bomb holding a flag divided by color, transforming destructive ideologies into figurative art with political and social critique. This work blends conceptual sculpture, symbolic realism, and contemporary art to question the responsibility people hold in sustaining systems of conflict.
Societal Sickness
Suicide and the emotional toll of societal neglect. A person with a noose around their neck standing on a chair transforms private suffering into public social critique. Using contemporary sculpture, symbolic realism, and conceptual art, the piece interrogates cultural pressures, systemic failure, and the role of people in perpetuating or preventing despair.
Orgy
Exploring human sexuality and cultural perceptions of intimacy. Multi-colored figures engage in chaotic interaction, merging symbolic realism, contemporary sculpture, and conceptual art to question the significance, exploitation, and social meaning of sex.
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