sucrose.
Blush Blind, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Angel, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Hit or Miss, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Mirror, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Stranger, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Eyedrop, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Starry, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Crystal, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Selfie 2, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Pearl, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Cool Cats, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Berry, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
Sucrose, 2025, 60 x 45 inches, Oil on cotton
Glucose, 2025, 60 x 45 inches, Oil on cotton
Lafufu, 2025, 12 x 12 inches, oil on cotton
These paintings seek explore my own identity in our modern world of images, where self-commodification has become a pervasive norm. I named this thesis sucrose. after the scientific name for a naturally occurring disaccharide that is processed and refined into the sweet, crystalline substance we know as white sugar. The figures in my paintings present the struggle between authenticity and artifice. In eye contact they share with the viewer, they ask: do we seek genuine connection, or are we content to be consumed?