"Our Fall Facilitates Their Rise"
This intense mixed-media composition centers on the systemic control and incarceration of indigenous Americans, exposing the intersection of authority, economics, and human life. Set against a vivid, high-energy field of orange, green, and yellow, the piece layers repeated imagery of incarcerated figures, law enforcement, and physical restraint creating a visual rhythm of surveillance, confinement, and resistance.
At the core, stacked forms resembling currency and institutional structures suggest the commodification of bodies, pointing to how systems of power can turn human lives into profit. Radiating mechanical, barbed motifs extend outward like a network, symbolizing how these structures reach beyond physical spaces into psychological and societal realms.
Figures appear in cycles are standing, restrained, transported, reflecting repetition and normalization, while also hinting at resilience and endurance. The work becomes a confrontation of the prison-industrial complex as it impacts indigenous communities, revealing not only physical containment but the deeper, ongoing struggle against systemic control and imposed limitations.
At the core, stacked forms resembling currency and institutional structures suggest the commodification of bodies, pointing to how systems of power can turn human lives into profit. Radiating mechanical, barbed motifs extend outward like a network, symbolizing how these structures reach beyond physical spaces into psychological and societal realms.
Figures appear in cycles are standing, restrained, transported, reflecting repetition and normalization, while also hinting at resilience and endurance. The work becomes a confrontation of the prison-industrial complex as it impacts indigenous communities, revealing not only physical containment but the deeper, ongoing struggle against systemic control and imposed limitations.