I create work that has a mission to unify people through different lived experiences and topics. I am now working on a body that represents the linear aspects of the working class to acknowledge the unfortunate fact that often times, no matter what career one possesses , how hard one works, there is a minimum amount of any socioeconomic mobility due to capitalist systems that have been in effect for centuries. The overall intention for this current body of work is to erase the tensions that are high and rising between different career paths, as the working class is much more linear from the outside looking in.

The significant use of watercolor through the body is due to its historical/ traditional nature, it was some of the first ways art was created, pigment and water. Now watercolor is much more expensive and prestigious than it was in prehistoric ages, this mirrors the working-class life as something that was once so accessible has now been so far removed from it roots in the happenstance of capitalization. As fixers buy tools, brokers go in debt to school, and artist need tiny tubes of pigments these are just the investments working class people have to meet before ever having any kind of economic mobility. The micron pens layered with pigments add a fluid-like structure to the drawings. The layered papers consist of employee contracts and career law books in which describes legalities of employment, this represents the constant search of a better opportunity without knowing what what the job may entail and if it is ethical or not.

The inspiration for this body comes from lived experience from growing in a generationally working-class family, though there was never a “traditional trade” passed through generations, everyone in my family have always been jacks of all trades. I had adopted this multifaceted mentality into my work by creating figures that look similar among the pieces. The non-realistic representational figures evoke an empathetic response like fatigue, doom, and pensiveness. Included on these pieces are fiberal aspects to add visual interest and deepen the narrative, as well supporting the drawing. As well as including color, the color pallet changes among the pieces to fit the specific career due to the varying conditions.