I paint hyperrealistic, poster-like portraits that borrow from the visual language of advertising and cinema. The figures appear seductive and familiar, but they are constructed surfaces, where desire, identity, and cultural expectation converge.

The gold backgrounds in my work reference Byzantine and Renaissance icon painting deliberately. Where devotional images once structured collective belief, commercial images now perform a similar function. I am interested in this continuity: from sacred image to consumer image, from altar to advertisement.

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