Gioia’s Portrait
I met Gioia while backpacking in California, and this portrait captures the layered complexity of her spirit.
Combining collage, newsprint, and bold color forms, the piece fractures the human figure into shifting, dynamic planes. Influenced by Cubism and Futurism, it reflects how Gioia’s moves through a world shaped by globalization, media, and cultural hybrid. The overlapping limbs and multilingual text evoke both motion and fragmentation, suggesting identity as something fluid, constructed, and continually reshaped by external forces.
This portrait is less a likeness and more a meditation on presence in a disjointed, media-saturated world.
2018
16”W x 24”L
Mix-media on canvas board
I met Gioia while backpacking in California, and this portrait captures the layered complexity of her spirit.
Combining collage, newsprint, and bold color forms, the piece fractures the human figure into shifting, dynamic planes. Influenced by Cubism and Futurism, it reflects how Gioia’s moves through a world shaped by globalization, media, and cultural hybrid. The overlapping limbs and multilingual text evoke both motion and fragmentation, suggesting identity as something fluid, constructed, and continually reshaped by external forces.
This portrait is less a likeness and more a meditation on presence in a disjointed, media-saturated world.
2018
16”W x 24”L
Mix-media on canvas board
I met Gioia while backpacking in California, and this portrait captures the layered complexity of her spirit.
Combining collage, newsprint, and bold color forms, the piece fractures the human figure into shifting, dynamic planes. Influenced by Cubism and Futurism, it reflects how Gioia’s moves through a world shaped by globalization, media, and cultural hybrid. The overlapping limbs and multilingual text evoke both motion and fragmentation, suggesting identity as something fluid, constructed, and continually reshaped by external forces.
This portrait is less a likeness and more a meditation on presence in a disjointed, media-saturated world.
2018
16”W x 24”L
Mix-media on canvas board