Essential

Washed is a series of digital abstract paintings that confront the breakdown of perception in in the age of digital oversaturation. The title itself is both literal and metaphorical—a reference to the washed-out state of contemporary consciousness, perpetually filtered, numbed, and diluted by screen culture.

Abstract forms, thick and sinuous brushstrokes, garish colors, and eye-catching compositions are conceptual stylistic choices that reflect the superficiality of our times—we have no time for details—we are seeking only that immediate dopamine bump and then quickly move on to something else. We no longer look—we scan. This process is not aesthetic play—it’s a direct response to a quantifiable collapse in how we see, process, and retain images and information.

The result is a hybrid image printed on aluminum plates, reinforcing the clean, reflective aesthetic of digital media—smooth, flat, glossy, shiny, like the devices through which we now experience reality.