Entering this project was like entering a tunnel of senior year, the far exit was graduation, college in Missouri, and my parents moving out of my childhood home from California to Texas. 

Slowly, the project evolved into a spontaneous source of entertainment for my classmates. The only space large enough for the panels was the right sidewall of my cramped classroom. Stepping over palettes on the floor, I added to the piece daily. Whether it was generational references or portraits of my peers, if my classmates smiled on the way through the door, my day was a success. I was creating our own visual language.

On the back wall of this mental room hangs the longhorn skull my grandpa cut off of his dead bull and skinned himself. The TV displays “Masterhand,” the disembodied final boss level in early Super Smash Bro’s. Number one trending on twitter on March 11 - “WHAT IS HAPPENING” – is strewn across the stars. As a caption to it all, Charlie Brown’s famous line (after losing his baseball game 184-to-nothing) sing out: “How can we lose when we’re so sincere?!”

15 oil panels, each 18”x18”