Insight: "Social Climbers" (2020)

The pyramidal shape in this piece is composed of 100 bodies placed on top of a gradient in teal. The markers on the side are meant to tally some arbitrary scale, but with Paris Hilton and Donald Trump in the top region, it's asserted that this scale is weighing social importance and wealth.

This piece like some of my others, aims to document the daily conditions of being human. Here I am questioning how hierarchal systems dehumanize many of us, especially those of us down below.

The lower regions include some images of negative stereotypes broadly associated with people from lower socio-economic backgrounds, including violence, alcohol use, and homelessness. Meanwhile, those higher up on the scale remain composed, unbothered, and caught up in their own game of climbing higher.