hungry for more (or less)

30” x 30” Acrylic on paper and collage materials

"hungry for more (or less)" is a layered portrait of contemporary consumption—chaotic, intimate, and unresolved. Painted in acrylic over collaged paper, the work weaves together fragments of faces and bodies. The materials—ripped magazine ads, packaging, glossy symbols of want—form a surface that is both seductive and unsettling.

The figures, drawn from various places and backgrounds, overlap and blur into one another. There is no clear boundary between desire and discomfort, abundance and emptiness. Instead, the painting becomes a kind of map: of longing, of habits, of the quiet violence and shared hunger that run through daily life.

This is not a condemnation, but a reflection. A recognition of the complexity of our appetites—emotional, physical, cultural—and the systems that feed and feed on them. The work holds the messiness without offering resolution. It asks us to look, not away, but closer. To sit with the discomfort. To notice who is full, who is not, and what it means to be constantly wanting—more, or less.