acrylic on canvas, 10x16 inches.
This is one of the Airstream's series, realistic paintings of early model Airstream trailers which have been polished to a mirror finish. Each composition emphasizes the distortion visible in the highly reflective metal. The paintings were inspired from amateur photographs taken by proud Airstream enthusiasts or sellers on the internet. The series examines the politics of the reflection and uses it to metaphor the ideology of the American Dream. Also relevant to the series are the reoccurring themes in my praxis regarding the discourses of photography vs. painting and realism vs. abstraction.

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