My Toxic Trait is I believe the Good is Inevitable- 2025

oil on canvas, rebar, steel, audio cables, monitor, screenrecording of video game 7:39
The Reef - Los Angeles

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“~ the orb
Witnesses describe seeing illuminated orbs circling above fields
while the crops rapidly bend and fold into intricate circles and shapes of sacred geometry.
We all are orbs.

~ the earthbound angel
We are the earth-bound, connected with and through earth.
It is also our destination that is earth, the place our journey forever leads us toward.
We are destined to continue arriving on this planet every time we open our eyes anew.

~ the unknowable
The unknowable attribute of a landscape shifts our perspective of scale, space and time.
It is a feeling that enables us to think beyond the analogies of our social and economical systems.
It grants us the ability to access the infinite possibilities that are layered upon a space at all times.”

“My Toxic Trait Is I Believe The Good Is Inevitable” is a transmedia work, a hybrid between sculpture, painting and digital media. Embedded in a rebar steel frame is a 5:4 LCD monitor playing a walkthrough of a video game made by the artist. From the metal frame four bars are stretching diagonally outward and forward into space, forming a concave rectangle. Between them, four pieces of painted canvas are stretched, the grommeted edges are threaded to the metal bars with clear audio cable. The four canvases form one painted image that in its digital form simultaneously serves as the map for the digital landscape on the screen.

The piece is about ways of shaping worlds through spiritual aesthetics, believes and phenomena. The amalgamation of hope and spirituality towards our environment and life on planet earth in times of hyper capitalism considers environmental phenomena, crop circles, alien sightings, petroglyphs and ancient landscape art. Reconsidering indigenous knowledge and practices connected to land use and sustainability are becoming entangled with personalized spiritual and ideological systems that draw from health and wellness culture, fandoms, political activism, science and technology. This phenomenon of a practice of “remixed religion” is backed with feminist and post humanist theory and expressed in the work.

Creating this work on the height of what is widely considered the Anthropocene - a time where most species are more intertwined in their fate than ever, collectively suffering from the consequences of human made climate change, scarcity of resources and destroyed eco systems - challenges the human centric vision of this concept. It is our responsibility to take action to heal the earth from the consequences of our ongoing destructive behavior as a species. We humans within the realm of creatures are capable of collectively creating something sustainable and fruitful from our ruins.