The Public
2025
The Public examines the emotional extremes of modern dating: anxiety, temptation, rejection, and the search for clarity. It asks what it truly means to open yourself up in a world that often rewards appearance over authenticity. The series includes Infested Fantasies, which explores the uncertainty and emotional decay of situationships, and Pink’s Prescription, which critiques the hollow comforts of surface-level desire. Together, these works capture the push and pull between vulnerability and self-protection, desire and disillusionment.
Across the series, emotional truth wrestles with fantasy, performance, and the seductive comfort of quick fixes. These tensions expose not only the fragility of connection in a curated age but also the resilience it takes to remain present in the mess of it all. To keep showing up, even when the ground feels unstable.
Infested Fantasies
Infested Fantasies reflects the illusion of connection in situationships, where gestures hint at intimacy but nothing solid ever forms. Lenticular visuals mirror the distortion of showing up for someone who only ever appeared in fragments, shifting between moments of closeness, distance, and hesitation. The melting, candy-colored television frames these fleeting encounters like a performance, seducing the viewer while exposing the instability beneath. The work speaks to the extremes of modern dating, where desire, uncertainty, and longing collide, and where the promise of connection can dissolve as quickly as it appears.
Aligned only in orbit
Even the flowers held their breath
imitation doesn’t bloom
held, then hallowed
pink’s prescription
Pink’s Prescription explores the illusion of fulfillment through external validation. A melting medicine cabinet overflows with pills that distort and decay, symbolizing the seductive pull of surface-level traits. What begins as comfort turns monstrous over time, revealing the emotional toxicity of mistaking appearance for connection.
