Housing Fever Dreams
Across sequential, color-flooded canvases, repeated architectural saltbox grids map the fraught territory of the American neighborhood. Rooted in the vernacular houses my grandfather built across Mobile, Alabama seventy-five years ago, these works bypass pristine architectural monuments to interrogate the speculative machinery of modern development.
Saturated acrylics, industrial spray paint, foil, and glitter collide against the rigid geometry of the subdivision. Borrowing the aspirational, pseudo-pastoral naming conventions of corporate tract housing and mapping them against intuitive color fields, the work explores the friction between late-capitalist land commodification and the messy, living communities that inhabit it-spaces of birth, decay, flora, fauna, and collective survival.
These paintings function both as diagnostic fever dreams of spatial inequality and as visceral prayers for shelter.
Sunshine Prana Village 60 x 48 Acrylic, spray paint, and glitter on canvas 2022
New Death Gardens 60 x 48 Acrylic, spray paint, and glitter on canvas 2020
Golden Acres 72 x 48 Acrylic on canvas 2019
Blue Velvet 60 x 72 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
Emerald Village 60 x 48 Acrylic, spray paint, and glitter on canvas 2022
Purple Haze 60 x 48 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
Opal Terra 60 x 48 Acrylic and glitter on canvas 2023
Fuchsia Sunset Village 60 x 48 Acrylic on canvas 2023
Leonardo's Ocean Grove 60 x 48 Acrylic on Canvas 2023
Coral Oaks 72 x 48 Acrylic and glitter on canvas 2023
"Vishudhatown" 72 x 48 Acrylic on canvas 2024
"Manipura Hollow" 60 x 48 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
"Muladhara Junction" 72 x 48 Acrylic on canvas 2024
"You, Me, and the Seven Wondrous Seas" Acrylic and collage on wood 8 x 11 2024