A Slow & Persistent Hum

Oil on canvas, 2025, 57 × 59 cm

Oil painting divided between a grey military missile descending through a muted sage sky, a small black inset of a peachy bum with dollar bills tucked in her thong and the word 'win', and a close-up of a rolling human eye rendered in soft taupe — a collision of violence, desire, and surveillance
The painting hung at eye level on a white gallery wall, the clean surface above contrasting with the paint-splattered herringbone studio floor below
A wider view of the studio gallery: the painting visible on the left wall, with a constellation of smaller works arranged on the partition beyond, daylight filtering through a far window
The unframed painting seen straight on, its raw canvas edges casting a soft shadow — the missile, the meme, and the eye held together in a quiet, unsettling equilibrium