
PLAYGROUND DETROIT at Future Fair 2025
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This lush botanical study showcases the delicate white blooms of Angel's Tears amid verdant foliage. Using a custom digital painting app and tablet, the artist hand-painted each vector brushstroke, creating organic textures that belie the work's digital origins. The composition began as a cell phone photo, then transformed through deliberate mark-making that captures both the plants' delicacy and the subtle interplay of light and shadow.
This lush botanical study showcases the delicate white blooms of Angel's Tears amid verdant foliage. Using a custom digital painting app and tablet, the artist hand-painted each vector brushstroke, creating organic textures that belie the work's digital origins. The composition began as a cell phone photo, then transformed through deliberate mark-making that captures both the plants' delicacy and the subtle interplay of light and shadow.

This roadside vista elevates an ordinary commute into a contemplative moment. Created in the artist's custom digital painting app using hand-drawn vector brushstrokes, the piece refernces a cell phone photo captured through a car window. The digital medium allows for both atmospheric depth in the golden wetlands and precise detail in the rearview mirror glimpse, merging the intimate vehicle interior with the expansive landscape beyond in a way unique to the artist's process.
This roadside vista elevates an ordinary commute into a contemplative moment. Created in the artist's custom digital painting app using hand-drawn vector brushstrokes, the piece refernces a cell phone photo captured through a car window. The digital medium allows for both atmospheric depth in the golden wetlands and precise detail in the rearview mirror glimpse, merging the intimate vehicle interior with the expansive landscape beyond in a way unique to the artist's process.
Dusk in Iowa captures the final light of day over a rural landscape drawn from a cell phone photograph. The image is referenced in the artist’s custom digital painting software, where brush-like marks are built up in layers of vector shapes and gradients. The silhouetted treeline contrasts with a luminous sky rendered in dappled strokes of violet, pink, and pale yellow. The painting moves between observation and abstraction, grounding a fleeting scene in graphic clarity and atmospheric depth.
Garden House in Hazel Park depicts an untamed, sprawling flower bed seen from a pedestrian’s passing glance. The artist added physical layers of embroidery on the flowers in the scene, adding visual depth and detail to the work. Tiles of canvas are quilted together and stretched to resemble a traditional painting. These details combine to present a sense of stillness and vibrancy embedded in natural moments of beauty.
Golden Hour in Boston-Edison depicts a neighborhood path awash in afternoon light. The scene is rendered using the artist’s custom digital painting software, where densely layered marks suggest the flickering complexity of sunlight and foliage. A layer of embroidery overlays the surface, catching real light and adding a tactile dimension to the painted illusion.
This work examines YouTube as a paradoxical knowledge ecosystem where academic lectures coexist with adrenaline-fueled content. The piece collages various disparate elements: niche video essays alongside car crashes and pranks, ambient dashcam city tours that create quasi-virtual reality experiences, and a repurposed 17th-century painting of St. Augustine now serving as a study music thumbnail. This work examines how digital platforms simultaneously democratize and destabilize information hierarchies in contemporary learning landscapes.
Drawing from an archive of screenshots of the artist's personal YouTube homepage, the work functions as a form of self-portraiture revealing what the algorithm perceives of one's identity. The piece examines the proliferation of "life advice" content that markets philosophies and optimization techniques to young viewers. Through collaging and redrawing of these elements, the work ponders how algorithmic curation infiltrates our consciousness during countless hours of screen time, becoming inseparable from modern identity formation.
Living Room at Golden Hour captures a sun-drenched moment in a domestic interior. The composition is based on a cell phone photograph, referenced in the artist’s custom digital painting software. He draws elements from the scene ebbing between photoreal details and softer, blocky strokes. Sunlight pours across the furniture, highlighting and color shifting small details. The painting invites close viewing, rewarding attention to surface, texture, and the emotional resonance of familiar spaces.
May 2020 (unknown night sky) presents a mysterious and atmospheric skyscape rendered in digital mark-making and layered textile work. Painted using the artist’s custom software, the image employs sweeping tonal gradients to evoke a moment suspended in time. Embroidery and quilted stitching overlay the surface, catching light and introducing a tactile contrast to the screen-like flatness of the image.
This piece captures a rave scene's frenetic energy with apocalyptic undercurrents. Created in the artist's custom app using hand-drawn vector brushstrokes, the piece merges dancing figures with elements of flames and conflict. Deep purples dominate while bursts of orange suggest fire, transforming nightlife revelry into a meditation on celebration amid chaos.
This work examines YouTube's pulpy, viral ecosystem popular among younger viewers. It collages content that oscillates between two emotions driving online virality. The "shock" comes from paranormal jump scares and claustrophobic cave exploration videos. The narcotic "awe" appears in Studio Ghibli-inspired audio visualizers and cargo ship footage in choppy waters. Inspired by Warhol's Death and Disaster series, it reflects how these emotional triggers shape digital engagement and attention economies.

Captured from a car dashboard, this piece transforms an everyday urban scene into a vibrant meditation on twilight. Created in the artist's custom digital painting app, each vector brushstroke was hand-drawn using a Wacom tablet, preserving the expressiveness of traditional painting while referencing a cell phone photo taken during a drive.
Captured from a car dashboard, this piece transforms an everyday urban scene into a vibrant meditation on twilight. Created in the artist's custom digital painting app, each vector brushstroke was hand-drawn using a Wacom tablet, preserving the expressiveness of traditional painting while referencing a cell phone photo taken during a drive.
This corner of suburban life celebrates unmanicured beauty against a modest yellow house. Hand-painted in the artist's custom digital painting app, each vector brushstroke maintains the expressiveness of traditional painting while allowing for the vibrant color relationships that define the scene.
This corner of suburban life celebrates unmanicured beauty against a modest yellow house. Hand-painted in the artist's custom digital painting app, each vector brushstroke maintains the expressiveness of traditional painting while allowing for the vibrant color relationships that define the scene.


































