The Icon Series examines the relationship between public figures, cultural memory, and personal meaning. These works use recognizable imagery, bold color, layered text, and expressive marks to explore how certain people become symbols beyond themselves.
Rather than functioning as traditional portraits, these pieces investigate what icons represent: voice, resistance, beauty, power, contradiction, influence, and collective memory. The layered treatment of each image allows the figure to exist both as a person and as a symbol shaped by history, media, admiration, and interpretation.
The series asks: Who becomes an icon? What do we project onto them? How do their images help us understand our own hopes, beliefs, and identities?
