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SOUND CHECK, 2026

SOUND CHECK, 2026

Gouache and ink on paper, 32 × 26 inches

MELEE, 2026

MELEE, 2026

Ink, gouache on paper, 31 ½” x 44” inches

A collapsed U. S. Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent is lassoed and impaled by President of Argentina Javier Milei (dressed as a matador) and his Satanist assistant. Milei claims to have gone into politics with only “two toothpicks,” which morph into a bullfighter’s instruments that fell his American ally.

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The hearth of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent

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U. S. Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent and President of Argentina Javier Milei (as a matador) struggling with an Argentine Satanist

WE HAVE COME TO THIS, 2026

WE HAVE COME TO THIS, 2026

Ink, conte, and gouache on paper, 50”x 55 ¼ inches

An emaciated lion serves as mascot for a skeletal, pot-bellied Trump wearing Roman sandals. Burdened by the merchandise he brands (sneakers and red MAGA hats), he brandishes a golf club-cum-Sharpie.

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Trump brand sneakers cascading from a skeletal arm that wields a golf club-cum-Sharpie

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A skeletal Trump charges forward with MAGA hats in hand.

THE SHOT NOT HEARD ROUND SAMOA, 2026

THE SHOT NOT HEARD ROUND SAMOA, 2026

Ink and gouache on paper, 40” x 28 ½” inches

U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr being inoculated with an mRNA vaccine by Nobel Prize winners Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó, flanked by former Center for Disease Control Director and microbiologist Susan Monarez, a Samoan funeral director, children at risk and a dead bear cub that RFK Jr. confessed to dumping in Central Park in 2014.

Contrary to RFK Jr’s testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing, Samoan officials asserted that Kennedy's 2014 trip their country bolstered the credibility of anti-vaccine activists ahead of the measles outbreak, which sickened thousands of people and killed 83, mostly children under age 5.

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Drew Weissman, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, for discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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Katalin Karikó, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, for discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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The arm of RFK Jr being inoculated with the mRNA vaccines that he could have promoted rather than undermined during his 2014 trip to Samoa, which subsequently suffered a fatal scourge of measles.

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Former Center for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez who was fired because she refused to cede to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s demands to pre-approve vaccine recommendations for the public and fire career scientists.

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A child finding a dead bear cub that RFK Jr. dumped and staged in Central Park to make it look like it had been hit by a bicyclist.

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A Samoan funeral director fussing around the Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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A distracted child holding a cell phone in front of a funeral floral arrangement of “sunflowers shone somewhere,” a reference to the line “But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone,” from W.H. Auden’s poem Musée des Beaux Arts.

TO DAVY JONES, 2026

TO DAVY JONES, 2026

Ink and gouache on paper, 56 ½” x 57” inches

Historically, sailors used the term "Davy Jones" as a nautical nickname for the devil or a sea demon. In maritime folklore, Davy Jones is known as the "fiend of the deep" who rules over Davy Jones's Locker—a mythical, purgatory-like resting place at the bottom of the sea for all sailors who perish.

A beleaguered messianic Trump is burdened here by a massive anchor and the weight of his bling. “Uncle Sam enacts his “I WANT YOU” slogan, extracting Trump from this world and banishing him to unfathomable depths.

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The bruised hand of Trump

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A dog tag for a president who never served in the military, embellished by numbers referring to his two presidencies, the 45th and 47th. A similar item can be purchased on trumpstore.com for $425.

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Bling on steroids, worn as a belt sure to sink.

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The miraculous ear

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Another boo boo.

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A notched dog tag for a president who evaded military service, decorated with the Santa Maria

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The deep end (or penitent eyes)

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I WANT YOU!

CHAPERONE IN LIAM'S HAT, 2026

CHAPERONE IN LIAM'S HAT, 2026

Ink and gouache on paper, 16 x 12 inches

An agent wears the bunny-eared hat of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos who was seized by ICE in Minneapolis on January 20, 2026 and sent to Dilley Detention Facility in Texas with his father. They were released on January 31, 2026 after global outrage.

The federal government has continued to pursue the family's deportation after a judge’s denial of their asylum claims.

SINKHOLE 2023

SINKHOLE 2023

Ink and gouache on paper, 37.5 x 24.5 inches

SINKHOLE speaks to the engineered unravelling of electoral trust. It portrays a ballot worker diligently performing duties in a sinkhole of suspicion and harassment, surrounded by long lines in districts purposely assigned fewer polling stations, shorter voting calendars, and increasing restrictions. Above her are ghostly gerrymandering politicians who skew the democratic process, promoting disenfranchisement and undermining the spirit of authentic democracy.

SINKHOLE 2023

SINKHOLE 2023

Detail of Poll worker monitoring

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SINKHOLE detail

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SINKHOLE detail

SINKHOLE 2023

SINKHOLE 2023

Detail: Line forms here….

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SINKHOLE detail

SINKHOLE detail

SINKHOLE detail

POLL PATROL 2023

POLL PATROL 2023

Ink, gouache, graphite 54.5 x 55.5 inches

POLL PATROL merges self-appointed vigilantes with ICE agents who assume the ‘burden’ to ensure that only the “right” people live and vote in the USA.

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POLL PATROL detail

POLL PATROL

POLL PATROL

Detail fo the scrutinized

POLL PATROL

POLL PATROL

Detail of identification

POLL PATROL

POLL PATROL

Capuchin monkey poll monitor

POLL PATROL

POLL PATROL

Detail of balladeers