As an immigrant to the United States, I too sense the emotional freedom in liberally reinterpreting the culturally and politically charged visual remains of American history. God bless America. 

In this period of rising reassessment of the history as we know it, my current body of work is an attempt to fabricate speculative histories and narratives based on found historical, religious, and mythological symbols of the past.

These paintings and drawings are the results of generated visual conversations with artificial intelligence (AI) computer engines to digitally fragment graphic elements selected from the pictorial and textual manuscripts of American folk art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Random but calculated repetition and combination of these graphic elements taken from birth certificates, marriage, and death records create a mutated reality full of contradictions and absurdities that parallel the current climate of revision and revelation of fabricated idealism and selective memory.  

I use the paradox of digital intangibility of computer-generated images and objectivity of a physical canvas and paper to  create paintings and drawings that examine contemporary issues related to public memory and art-making traditions.