"The Future is History"
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Epoxy | 2018

Created while watching Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, this piece explores the paradoxes and mysteries of time travel through the lens of that film's fractured narrative. The work captures the disorienting experience of characters moving through time, meeting in psychiatric wards, and confronting the impossibility of knowing whether changing the present alters the past or future.

The layered text draws from dialogue in the film, as well as quotes from Timothy Leary and Robin Williams (voices that spoke openly about mental illness) altered consciousness, and the fragility of perception. The piece became a meditation on these intersecting themes: the unreliability of memory, the weight of pharmaceutical intervention, and the question of whether we can ever truly escape our own timelines.

Beneath the painted surface lies a foundation of comic book pages, including panels from V for Vendetta and pages from Charles Bukowski's work—stories of rebellion, isolation, and the search for meaning in chaotic systems.