Unfortunate Guest (2024)

18.0 x 24.0 x 1.57 | Mixed Media (Resin, Acrylic Paint, Oil Clay)

At first glance, Unfortunate Guest may seem like a cheerful family feast. It’s only after looking carefully that the clear-resin silhouette at the table register: a child. The “invisible” guest stands in for global hunger (UN SDG #2), a crisis most of us know in the abstract while our own plates stay full. I used resin's transparency not as a trick but as a measure of distance: when suffering is far away, it reads as background. The table is decorated with printed images of food. Its excess isn’t about cartoon greed; it’s about priority and numbness, how celebration, gratitude, and “abundance” can edit out what we’d rather not name. The composition leans on a poster-like directness, so the contradiction lands in a single frame: joy staged beside omission. The resin child is there the whole time; whether we see them is the point.