“RISE/overlords”
4x3 ft - Oil on canvas
A painting I created as I navigated countering the energy of intangible overlords that I felt had a hold on how the world around me moved. Overlords that fabricate reality to create illusions of safety and order, overlords that want us to boil down complexity into binary, guiding us to point fingers at each other while while trying so hard to maintain their invisibility, overlords that succeed in remaining invisible to so many, facilitating the suffering of those who are most affected by them, … List goes on.
This painting helped me shatter some personal overlords of that time, and ever since, has served as a manifestation that although they reappear, we can continue to repel and shatter them.
Preparing light references in 3D software (Blender) with the help of my good friend and artist Jacky Dang.
The piece at R&B artist Dende’s traveling gallery.