DO YOU SEE ME?

Do You See Me is a series of abstract figures layered with text. Their faces hold no detail, no features to confirm identity or origin. Without eyes to meet, the question becomes real. Do you honestly see me?

Each painting may hold an immigrant, a woman in poverty, a laborer, a child, even the Statue of Liberty. They are not portraits in the traditional sense. They are presences. They carry words that speak of love, accusation, survival, and hope.

The absence of facial detail removes easy recognition and easy dismissal. Viewers cannot rely on stereotype or surface reading. They must confront their own instinct to label, to categorize, to turn away. The work asks whether love is conditional, whether empathy depends on familiarity, whether dignity requires likeness.

The intention is to stir beauty and anger at once. To create tension between agreement and resistance. To challenge the ways we define others and, ultimately, how we define ourselves.