These drawings and paintings explore the idea of communal isolation and the ways this can devolve personal emotional states. In them, shared habits 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 undercurrents of social to emotional aggregation, moments emerge just beyond our attention that might be the pretext to something bigger.
