Starting as gilded copies of White House portraits, the works of this show, “POWER Obscured”, were masked, manipulated, distressed, and layered to simultaneously obscure and reveal the humanity within, while commenting on the power we, as a people, grant upon select individuals. The new visual voice presents something more complex, more nuanced, and more imperfect, while the emotion, expression, and experimentation reflect the inhumanity of today’s world. These transformed portraits of “power”, along with other related collage pieces, are how I have dealt with these crazy times we find ourselves in.