America's Social Contract
laser cut watercolor painting on paper, 7 panels painted front & back, 28 x 16 inches each ©2017

America’s Social Contract depicts diverse races of people pulling each other up, very much opposed to individuals pushing each other down. These watercolor paintings are laser cut, transforming them into objects that are made out of the words from the constitution. Both sides of the work are painted. As the viewer walks around the piece they can always see the person on the “Other” side. As light hits the surface of the paintings a cast shadow of the words from the constitution falls on the viewer, making them one with the constitution.

The 13th Amendment
laser cut watercolor painting floated over digital logo collage, painting - 25 x 16 inches | frame 30x24 inches ©2018

Citizen is a timeline of people's rights in America starting with the Declaration of Independence. The imagery of people holding up children demonstrates humanity’s ability to make things better for future generations. Most of the text laser cut throughout each painting endorses and upholds this concept with concrete laws, official declarations and speeches expressing egalitarian ideas supporting positive social agreements. Others reveal inequities. The first images are of white people to recognize the fact that America was founded on the idea that “God created all white men equal”. The acknowledgment of different races and genders deserving any rights and/or freedoms appears only later in the constitution and in the establishment of various laws as American society has evolved. The final two paintings in this gallery deal with the Equal Rights Amendment and are not included in the historical timeline because the ERA is still not an official amendment.