The Blind Angler

Year | 2025

Medium | Oil on canvas

Size | 17.9 W x 20.9 H in

Additional Details | “Blind Angler” was inspired by the environmental controversy over the Seine River in Paris during the Olympics. For over a century, the response to pollution was not to clean the water, but to simply avoid it and abandon the river entirely. The figure sits fishing on a lake that looks calm, almost pretty at first glance. But with a closer look, the water is dead from pollution. This "willful blindness" here is how it's not that “we didn’t know,” but “we knew, and we decided not to know.” The red, sharp forms rising from the lake deliberately break the realism of the scene. They don’t belong in a peaceful landscape, and yet they do.