Paintings

My paintings are a taphonomic study of the “American Dream” and the Western concept of progress, especially scientific and societal progress. I use an American Art Deco aesthetic, images of the habitat dioramas in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and my own historic and scientific research and personal experience in order to entrench the viewer in nostalgia while critically deconstructing the assumptions and delusions that are crucial to these ideas. These include but are not limited to colonialism, sexism, ethical questions concerning museums, and the limitations of science.