The series En Masse explores the idea of communal isolation and the ways this can devolve our personal, emotional states. In these paintings and drawings, imagined social groupings—shared habits, practices, or beliefs—reveal how personal identity can rewire in the pursuit of belonging.

Often depicting both isolation and connection in the same compositions, En Masse considers how social connection intertwines with feelings of estrangement and the bonds that can become twisted as they define our communal existence.

Through built layers of paint scraped over loosely hung, splattered canvas and combined with indistinctly massed figures, the work attempts a visceral response through scale and sparseness. With visual dissonance and narrative undercurrents of social to emotional aggregation, little moments emerge just beyond the edge of our attention that might be the pretext to something bigger.