Divide et Impera (Divide and Conquer), Cherry-Apple Peach, Oil on Canvas, 4’x4’, 2026
This is the title of both the centerpanel (4ft x 4ft) and the larger triptych (4ft x 8ft), as “divide and conquer” is the strategy the ultrawealthy employ to keep us fighting about anything other than where all of our money is going. We are more productive than we have ever been as a species, yet it's getting harder to make ends meet. Where is all of the money going? Here we see my younger brother, a working class hero who destroys his body to support his family, desperately trying to grab his soul and shove it back in - probably just to make it to work for one more shift. The Hellmouth he's about to be pulled into contains the world. The black eyes of the world's monster blankly stare on a man being separated from his own image, all of his time, his energy, his personal development. The course of his life has been perverted by a tiny group of unelected power addicts while he simply continues to try and do right. He's caught between the "sell all of your possessions and give the money to the poor before coming to follow me" version of reality on the left panel and the self-interested, "exploit your fellow man" concept sold to us as the responsible way a society is managed on the right panel. The dissonance between the two is ripping him in half.

