Divide et Impera (Divide and Conquer), Cherry-Apple Peach, Oil on Canvas, 4’x4’, 2026
Divide and Conquer is the title of both the center panel (4ft by 4ft) and the larger triptych (8ft by 4ft), as this is the strategy the ultrawealthy employ to keep us fighting about anything other than where all of our money is going. With modern technology we are more productive than we have ever been as a species, yet it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet. Where is all of the money going? Here we see my little brother, a working-class hero who is destroying 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, all of his energy, all of his personal development. The course of his life has been perverted by a tiny group of unelected paragons of power while he 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 and the self-interested, "exploit your fellow man" concept sold to us as the responsible way a society is managed on the right. The dissonance between the two is ripping him in half.

