TAKE OFF THE HEAD 2007 is an installation-mural comprised of over 1100 small painted portraits of heads of state, terrorists, religious and corporate leaders and other singular figures in the events of our time. Painted from photographs taken from print media, government, academic and N.G.O. websites, TAKE OFF THE HEAD 2007 is a comprehensive survey of all those who possess power or positions of influence in the world today. Apart from satisfying my compulsion to collect them all, the main intention of this work is to recreate my sensation of awe towards the complexity of events and inscrutability of social actors which any avid reader of newspapers will recognize.

My Flags are subverted symbols of nationhood. They are realist flags for the whole ungoverned world. While the black flag is widely recognized as the banner for anarchism, the abstract representation of a black flag is not an advocation of anarchism, but a reluctant acknowledgement of anarchic condition of global affairs.

Also exhibited is the series, I Too Am in Arcadia. The subject matter of the work ranges from ghostly flower arrangements to sinister Naturists and dour scenes of instinct-possessed characters in states of constant reversion. Technically referring more to graphic traditions than to those of painting, the works are primarily monochromatic with occasional use of bold text like that of political propaganda or commercial advertising. I Too Am in Arcadia casts suspicion on our culture’s romance of nature, and the idealization of the non-human world. Borrowed from the title of a Nicolas Poussin painting, the exhibition title is intended to express my skepticism of the supposed virtues of the “natural” and the ideologies, which justify themselves with that concept.