Overview
Deities & Demigods presents figures who shape the infrastructures through which contemporary culture communicates, remembers, and understands itself. The paintings place technological leadership within a longer history of portraiture used to construct status and legitimacy.
Portraiture and platform power
The series asks how an individual becomes a symbol for systems that are vastly larger than any one person. Soft washes and carefully rendered faces coexist with the political weight of platforms that mediate attention, public discourse, and behavioural data.
The work does not resolve whether these figures should be read as innovators, custodians, or objects of suspicion. Instead, it holds the mythology of technological power inside the conventions of painted portraiture.
Selected documentation