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KERBLAM! & The Confection of Saints
An explosion of comic-book chaos reveals the false sanctity of childhood pleasures. These saints do not heal—they advertise. They drip, melt, and demand allegiance.
Theme: The commodification of innocence under the guise of entertainment.
Critique: The infantilization of culture as a method of control.
Dot Days of Judgement
Polka dots rot into rash. Closeness becomes confusion. Threadbare boundaries blur personal relationships under the pressure of mass messaging.
Theme: Emotional disorientation caused by overexposure to visual marketing.
Critique: How childhood intimacy is eroded by artificial imagery and performative affection.
The Donut of Unknowing
A holy ring replaced with frosting. Youth crowned in junk. This is not indulgence—it is indoctrination.
Theme: Processed symbols replacing meaningful rites of passage.
Critique: Junk culture as a deliberate sabotage of spiritual development.
Superhomem & the Martyr of Mascara
A counterfeit savior in a hollow cape. The language of comics collapses into trauma and self-destruction.
Theme: Masculinity, power, and weakness scripted through product.
Critique: Gender roles sold to children under the mask of play.
Young Nymph, Eggs, Queen
The lifecycle of girlhood, rebranded as a consumer pipeline. From bee to queen, each stage is monetized.
Theme: The industrialization of femininity.
Critique: How marketing colonizes natural identity, especially in young women.
The Gun Came with a Warranty
A child holds a weapon like a toy. A teacher instructs beside a mosquito. Even the tools of death come prepackaged.
Theme: The normalization of violence through presentation and packaging.
Critique: How childhood is co-opted by a culture that profits from fear.
Skull Girls & the Blood of Paper
A girl holds out invisible weight. Skulls become sacred. Paper remembers. This is the residue of unspoken damage.
Theme: Memory, trauma, and the fragility of identity.
Critique: The cultural silence around generational psychological exploitation.
Detail of Form 13A
Detail of Form 13A
Detail of Form 13A
Form 13A: Smile Compliance
Here, the paper is not sacred—it’s official.
This isn’t a canvas. It’s a form. A bureaucratic veil stretched over figuration, stitched in hazard orange like a warning label.
Each figure smiles, but their expressions feel filed, flattened—like mugshots taken by an advertising executive. The smiles repeat, ghosting through panels with increasing artificiality. Their eyes suggest recognition, but they do not see. Their mouths offer joy, but no one is laughing.
This piece is about compliance through facial expectation. It examines how youth, especially girls, are trained to express delight regardless of context. It asks:
What’s the cost of being raised in a culture that doesn’t just sell happiness—but demands its performance?
The thread here doesn’t bind in empathy—it binds in policy. It’s the red tape of emotional suppression, gendered expectation, and corporate aesthetics. Some figures are pierced through. Others are erased into abstraction. The material remembers every fold and crease like a soft bruise.
The ochre paper reads as institutional—schoolroom, office, clinic—setting the tone for a visual indictment. These are not portraits. They are files. Processed. Labeled. Archived.
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