Untitled [portrait], 2025
20 × 16 in
Acrylic, ink, spray paint and coffee grounds on canvas

These domino paintings incorporate multiple canvases, forming interconnected glyphs or totemic arrangements that merge gestures with the artist’s personal and cultural references.

In these works, I think of each domino as a stand-in for a person, a family tree, or a generation that lands in our line of sight—a reminder that each piece, or life, could not exist without the ones before it. The paintings become meditations on ancestry and continuity, showing how trauma, triumphs, and traditions are passed down, repeated, or reinvented. In honoring those connections, I aim to preserve a sustainable fact that has lasted for thousands of years: acknowledging the wisdom and presence of those who came before, and are still present.

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Domino-Glyph 4/2 , 2/0, 2025
20 x 24 in / 50.8 x 60.96 cm
Acrylic, ink, spray paint and coffee grounds on canvas
[2 panels]

Acrylic, spray paint, ink and coffee grounds on canvas / 20 x 16 in

These domino paintings incorporate multiple canvases, forming interconnected glyphs or totemic arrangements that merge gestures with the artist’s personal and cultural references.

In these works, I think of each domino as a stand-in for a person, a family tree, or a generation that lands in our line of sight—a reminder that each piece, or life, could not exist without the ones before it. The paintings become meditations on ancestry and continuity, showing how trauma, triumphs, and traditions are passed down, repeated, or reinvented. In honoring those connections, I aim to preserve a sustainable fact that has lasted for thousands of years: acknowledging the wisdom and presence of those who came before, and are still present.

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Domino-Glyph 6/6 6/3, 2025
31 x 14 in / 78.74 x 35.56 cm
Acrylic, ink, spray paint and coffee grounds on canvas

[2 panels]

These domino paintings incorporate multiple canvases, forming interconnected glyphs or totemic arrangements that merge gestures with the artist’s personal and cultural references. Rendered through layers of spray paint, acrylic, ink, and coffee grounds, the surfaces carry a tactile richness that speaks to both material experimentation and reverence to organic matter and human experiences. Each tile—textured and deliberately imperfect—becomes part of a larger visual equation where abstraction meets design. Installed vertically or horizontally, these panels of various sizes are a sequence between chance, fate, and choice. The result is a collection of works that elevate a familiar cultural object into a spiritual meditation on connection and ancestral influence.

The Story:
In these works, I think of each domino as a stand-in for a person, a family tree, or a generation that lands in our line of sight—a reminder that each piece, or life, could not exist without the ones before it. The paintings become meditations on ancestry and continuity, showing how trauma, triumphs, and traditions are passed down, repeated, or reinvented. In honoring those connections, I aim to preserve a sustainable fact that has lasted for thousands of years: acknowledging the wisdom and presence of those who came before, and are still present.

31 x 16 in / 78.74 x 40.64 cm
Acrylic, ink, spray paint and coffee grounds on canvas
[3 panels]