Paradigm Shifts

Paradigm Shifts emerged from my experiences during confinement, where memory, observation, imagination, and the outside world often collided. These works combine fragments of prison life with political violence, desire, popular culture, and personal experience, transforming familiar objects and events into surreal, dream-like scenes. Through these unexpected juxtapositions, ordinary reality gives way to shifting narratives in which familiar images take on new meanings.

Chaotic, colorful acrylic-and-ink painting of two masked fighters throwing Molotov cocktails amid falling bombs and stars, with a soldier, a cooked bird on a plate, barbed wire, and a hand holding a camera.

Falling Stars

2015 · Acrylic and ink on Bristol board · 12 × 9 in.

Surreal acrylic-and-ink painting of a man in a shirt and tie cutting a cow’s throat as blood spurts toward a made-up woman, with a red pepper and a skateboarder floating nearby and the words “No Warning Shots Will Be Fired” stenciled in the background.

No Warning Shots Will Be Fired

2014 · Acrylic and ink on Bristol board · 12 × 9 in.

Surreal, colorful acrylic-and-ink painting of two skateboarders, a chameleon, and packets of prison-issued cookies and peanut butter in a collage-like composition.

Chameleon Dreams

2015 · Acrylic and ink on Bristol board · 9 × 12 in.

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