The colorful, seemingly blithe characters and forms camouflage criticisms on politics, consumer culture, superficiality, Western healthcare, the fallacy of equal opportunity, and, in their very nature, ecological waste. The artworks bear titles like “Pandora’s Box” for a work featuring a can of Spam, hinting jointly at nutritional barrenness and bombarded inboxes; and “Out of the Ruins,” a work inspired by (and a title taken from) Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” alluding to the comical futility in telling people, falsely, that they’re a “hero” as an attempt to repair damaged egos.
The colorful, seemingly blithe characters and forms camouflage criticisms on politics, consumer culture, superficiality, Western healthcare, the fallacy of equal opportunity, and, in their very nature, ecological waste. The artworks bear titles like “Pandora’s Box” for a work featuring a can of Spam, hinting jointly at nutritional barrenness and bombarded inboxes; and “Out of the Ruins,” a work inspired by (and a title taken from) Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” alluding to the comical futility in telling people, falsely, that they’re a “hero” as an attempt to repair damaged egos.
