THE COOL KIDS | Limited Edition Print
Size: 12X18"
Medium: Giclée Print on Fine Art Paper
Series: Troopertina
They gather on Ocean Drive under artificial light — warm, loud, performative. Drinks in hand, bodies relaxed, masks fixed. The scene reads like freedom, but the structure underneath is rigid.
Each figure exists inside a role. The mask standardizes identity, removes difference, and offers protection. It allows participation without exposure. Everyone is present. No one is fully seen.
The group suggests belonging, but also pressure. To be part of it. To move with it. To be recognized within it. Approval circulates quietly — not spoken, but constantly negotiated.
The gestures are casual, almost effortless, yet they carry intention. Posing, aligning, adjusting. The body searches for expression while the mask maintains control.
This work sits in the tension between fitting in and becoming. Between performing identity and confronting it. The desire to be accepted runs parallel to the need to break away.
They are together, but each is alone inside their construction.
This is not a rejection of the crowd.
It is a question of what remains when the mask is no longer needed.
THE COOL KIDS | Limited Edition Print
Size: 12X18"
Medium: Giclée Print on Fine Art Paper
Series: Troopertina
They gather on Ocean Drive under artificial light — warm, loud, performative. Drinks in hand, bodies relaxed, masks fixed. The scene reads like freedom, but the structure underneath is rigid.
Each figure exists inside a role. The mask standardizes identity, removes difference, and offers protection. It allows participation without exposure. Everyone is present. No one is fully seen.
The group suggests belonging, but also pressure. To be part of it. To move with it. To be recognized within it. Approval circulates quietly — not spoken, but constantly negotiated.
The gestures are casual, almost effortless, yet they carry intention. Posing, aligning, adjusting. The body searches for expression while the mask maintains control.
This work sits in the tension between fitting in and becoming. Between performing identity and confronting it. The desire to be accepted runs parallel to the need to break away.
They are together, but each is alone inside their construction.
This is not a rejection of the crowd.
It is a question of what remains when the mask is no longer needed.
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