Portfolio > Comfortably Dumb

Street Shot
graphite on paper
11 x 14 inches
2014
War Zone
graphite on paper
14 x 17.5 inches
2014
All Tomorrow's Parties
Oil on Panel
9 x 12 inches
2014
Head Shot
Oil on Panel
9 x 12
2014
In the Cross Hairs
Oil on Panel
9 x 12 inches
2014
Pink Flame
Oil on Panel
9 x 12 inches
2014
Direct Hit
Graphite on Paper
11 x 14 inches
2014

The source images for Comfortably Dumb come from screen captures of amateur videos depicting young people playing with fireworks. This series focuses on the whole idea of these firework wars; the connotation of war, being in battle and being close to danger, which is actual danger but not taking it seriously.