The Tree of Ténéré Painting

I employ recurring figures to imply the cocktail of moral deficiencies and mental shortcomings possessed by all humans, for instance: the lack of common sense, realism and sexual interests, fragility, big headedness, and most significantly in this case, addiction. I then combine iconography from satirical art with methods accrued from New Objectivity painters. The resulting paintings hold compositions that hint at cinematography. My recent ideas have been shifting towards human and technological relations, and how morals seem to have been distorted by the ease and escapism provided by modern inventions. The Tree of Ténéré was the most isolated tree in the world before it was knocked over by a truck driver. By creating a forest of lonely trees, I am commenting on the potential dangers of VR and its way of keeping people superficially connected.