2022-2023 Artworks

The Signs of Our Times / Cast Beeswax in Plaster Panels

The Signs of Our Times distills our most enduring cultural conversations into their simplest visual forms. Working in black and white, each composition is organized into a nine-panel grid, reducing complex ideas to the familiar language of symbols—keyboard characters, hobo signs, mathematical marks, and the visual shorthand we encounter every day.

These symbols become a universal vocabulary through which we attempt to understand ourselves and one another. They speak to the conversations we inherit and continue: equality and inequality, belonging and division, life and death, power and vulnerability, certainty and ambiguity. These are not new questions; they have shaped humanity across generations.

By stripping away color and excess, the work asks whether these issues are ever truly black and white. The symbols appear simple, yet they carry histories, assumptions, and deeply personal meanings. They expose the tension between what we think we understand and what remains unspoken.

We move through the world surrounded by signs, searching for meaning and connection, often speaking across differences and, at times, blindly past one another. The Signs of Our Times invites viewers to slow down, reconsider the visual language they take for granted, and reflect on the enduring conversations that continue to define our shared human experience.