Gender deviants evaluates the current efforts individuals make against the gender binary so that those who deviate from the norms have access to fulfilling lifestyles that are so often denied to them.

“HouseWARNING Party” depicts the disaster that follows when the modern homeowner disobeys the rules of Feng Shui to prove that the ancient practice is still relevant in the modern world.

“What’s in a Name?” illustrates cheeky job titles used on resumes to poke fun at the idea of status afforded by titles.

Beyond the Canadian mythos of politeness and progressiveness are other lesser-known Canadian histories and realities. In this 150th year of confederation, viewers are invited to tour aspects of our country that they may not have considered before.

takes a subversive look at the questions we have about our human existence and draws fantastical attention to the importance of maintaining curiosity in our perspectives.

A series of museum shadow boxes, envisioning how human adaptation and changing values are key to surviving our new oceanic habitat, after our cities are submerged under water by rising water levels.

For Latinx people, the telenovela is a cathartic social experience as well as a catalyst for discourse. Through alternate perspectives of various desires, Sit down and pour yourself a glass of malbec while your wife sleeps with the farmhand examines how the telenovela seeps into the conversations and routines of people’s daily lives and combines everyday life and melodramatic fantasy.

“The Bestiary of Commonplace Creatures” explores the reasoning behind feelings of fear and reverence by reframing exaggerated misconceptions affiliated with animals with the reality of their natures, showing how judging on appearance alone leads to ideas born of ignorance.

The social gaze on fashion casts a shadow on women’s abilities and identities by dictating expectations on dress codes and appearances.

“Dress code: Pink” examines the effect of the social gaze in order to question our
choices in fashion.

Revealed Secrets explores the personal aspects of our lives what we keep secrets. By taking true stories Revealed Secrets illustrates what these ten individuals choose to keep hidden.

Highlights the difficulties of trying to stay stress-free in the adult workplace through stereotypically childlike games and entertainment.

Since ancient times, people have found new and bizarre ways to avoid conception. Inspired by historical contraceptive practices, this thesis will illustrate current issues surrounding sex and address the antiquated ways human beings respond to these problems that seem to persist despite all logic.

The world’s brightest creative minds didn’t make a name for themselves overnight. Quit Your Day Job explores the previous occupations of these figures to show that the path to success is not always a straight line.

‘Limerence’ describes the intense infatuation felt at the beginning of a romance, often overshadowing the lover’s partner. The Limerence of Limerick recontextualizes the metaphorical imagery inspired by romantic poets’ limerence exploring the true narratives of the originally objectified female subjects.

An environmental awareness campaign showing a series of ironic yet funny mishaps of humans trying to adjust to their new life in outer space after having to flee an environmentally-ruined Earth.

Building Blocks is a series of editorial illustrations that showcases the various struggles and feelings of the different “unseen disabilities,” in our society. It highlights the use of architectural elements being used as a gateway to providing a form of portrait style illustrations of the different disabilities chosen. Under this initial concept, the illustrations highlight the disabilities, under the “unseen disabilities” category, located within human beings and how they interact and feel being in everyday society.

About 15%-20% of the human population is born highly sensitive, with higher scores of sensory processing sensitivity. They are naturally more sensitive to stimuli – physical, emotional, psychological, societal, and environmental. “Eggy Sensitive” illustrates what it means to be made of more delicate material.

Ripped Ticket is the world you created when you were a kid in the back seat of your parents car. This project takes the mundane ritual of commuting with public transit and adds a dash of fantasy to break daily routine and add a little fun.

The Victorian era was a time of rapid change. With more money to spend on luxuries than ever before, the Victorians strove to be mavens of fashionable domesticity. “Domestic Assassins” metaphorically illustrates the unforeseen consequences resulting from the blind pursuit of perfection

“Fool’s Paradise” visualizes the impact that 1980’s cinematic quotes have had on today’s current ideals of the American Dream. By intertwining these past desires with today’s hunger for the perfect life, it has created an endless cycle of consumerism and unobtainable happiness.

Clothing is a feature specific to human beings. Despite its initial purposes of heating and protection from natural elements, clothes have become a status-bearing symbol in today’s modern world. My thesis, Cathartic Couture, imagines a world where clothing functioned as a deeper, more intimate part of the human being, and reflects desires, tragedies & conflicts of one’s subconscious.

“PROFESSIONALS” is a series of ten editorial illustrations, which portray a scene of how each ten people are willing to adjust into other situations by using their job skills.

What would Africa look like if it’s potential was realised? “Africa Autonomous” Illustrates 8 African countries and omits their colonial history while exploring these advanced, sustainable and independant nations that flourish using their own traditions and cultures.

“The Talk” is series of illustrations that depict literal interpretations of the white lies used to describe complex processes to children to criticize the lengths of absurdity for the regulation and manipulation of information that children have access to

“The Waking Dream” explores the eponym of syndromes named after children’s literature to create a synthesis between the dichotomy of fantasy and reality in its name and the syndrome.

There is a spark that keeps us driving out of highly stressful and traumatic experiences. “Flowering Nights” visualizes the unique survival methods of a child that emerge out this dire darkness.

Through interpretation and re-imagination, “Error 404: File Not Found” explores how technology both alters the grieving experience and enables us to create new rituals surrounding grief in the digital age.

Interference in Between looks at the interference in the communicating processes amongst people. This thesis calls attention to the transient subjectivity of the human experience and prompts curiosity around how we connect and disconnect to our lives.

“What’s Your Problem?” is a body of work that juxtaposes found tweets and reddit posts of #firstworldproblems within scenarios where severe problems and arduous circumstances are present.

“Sub-classical” explores modern instances of western privilege through visual quotes of classical artworks. This juxtaposition of the highly valued and frivolous activities demonstrates how unchecked privilege is like living within a fantasy.

Through the use of satire and caricature, Face Value mocks the “research” of modern physiognomy (the pseudoscience of judging character from physical characteristics), concurrently criticizing our society’s perpetual obsession with outward appearances.

Cornpunk Paradise illustrates an alternate socioeconomic timeline in which the industrial world is powered by corn-ethanol.

“Red Tide” portrays menstruation symptoms symbolized by mermaids to imply society’s view of menstruation is akin to a fairytale.

“SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY” draws parallels between lowbrow American Entertainment Culture and religious fanaticism (namely charismatic Christianity) to imply that they sell the same toxic, hyper-masculine fantasies of dominance, destruction and gender performativity.

“The Seat of the Soul” is a visual analysis on the natural brain hormone and chemical compound Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), it’s life altering psychoactive properties in relation to our own biochemistry as well as it’s subsequent spiritual and social significance in contemporary culture.

A facetious interpretation of bizarre scientific case studies that have been published in reputable scientific journals.

According to international law, an independent state can exist if it’s politically recognized by other states. “Micronations” reveals nations that are likely to emerge due to the current political, environmental, and economic direction our world is heading in.

Prophets have been predicting the end of the world for centuries; Doomed Doomsdays imagines what it would look like if these prophecies came true but failed to destroy the world.

“A Slave to Sweetness” explores our complex relationships with owning objects beyond necessity by depicting metaphorical imagery that exposes the dissatisfaction we feel when the thrill has disappeared.

Brutal Planet is the present world reimagined through illustration as if humanity’s main social constructs revolved around the metal lifestyle and how this outcome would affect its communities.

Odd One In visually interprets public routines as patterns. Illustrated with a single anomaly, it challenges the fluidity of our unspoken social contracts.

“Strangely Scientific” correlates Ig Nobel winners’ research to bygone occult beliefs and practices. It examines the fringes of science in order to demonstrate humorously that our methods for deciphering the continuously fascinating mysteries around us have changed very little.

Metonymy depicts a collection of darker narratives behind people’s lives through objects they interact with that are normally deemed pleasant, showing that there are deeper meanings hidden beneath the surface of a person.

Oxymora illustrates ten different oxymoronic situations where two opposite ideas are joined to create one scene we may encounter in our life.

“The Long or Low Path?”, is a series of illustrations that visualize an individual’s struggle to obtain personal desires and the sacrifices they make to obtain them. However, these individual’s take the act of sacrifice too far, resulting in devastating consequences.

It’s Not Love draws similarities between the interactions shared by humans and supernatural creatures in mythology, and the interactions of modern day couples, to serve as updated relationship red flags.

“The Intended” shows how famous brands today, were originally invented for an alternate intended use.

Following a document handed out to new companies in Alberta, which states that new companies do not have to follow provincial environmental regulations, provided they do not exceed the same air pollution output as the Alberta oil sands; I will push the boundaries of legality in other aspects of the law to display the absurdity of this particular case.

In 1975, U.S. Senator William Proxmire created The Golden Fleece Awards, acknowledging U.S. Administrations by condemning their research. “Silver Lining” imagines the different ways denounced researchers use their findings to gain revenge against William Proxmire.

Raising Little Demons addresses the challenges of being a parent, attempting to reassure the worries that come with the quirks and complications faced by parents who have demons instead of children.

“Pale Imitations” re-contextualizes feminine character archetypes, typically seen in film and television, in order to reveal their agency in a way that had previously been stifled by a sexist gaze.

‘Where the Heart Is’ considers the realities that surround the housing crisis in Toronto. These illustrations explore issues that pertain to affordable housing, homelessness, and poverty–themes that resonate within the daily lives of many Torontonians.

Genetic proclivities that exist within the current population taken to the extreme and presented through the framework of couples

“21st Century Fiddle-De-Dee” interprets current world issues through Edward Lear’s 19th century limerick collection “A Book of Nonsense”, to imply that the modern world isn’t as sensible as we like to think.

Inspired by the 18th and 19th century bas relief sculpture found in The Royal Palace of Madrid, Set in Stone compares and contrasts how humanity’s social and moral obligations have become warped over time, by juxtaposing the traditional high art medium of bas relief sculpture with visuals/ content reflecting present day culture and society throughout the world.

Commercialization has the ability to expand ritual practices. On the other hand, it has the power to cheapen these sacred rituals by making their true purpose less apparent. ‘Holy Crap’ imagines how various rituals from across the globe would be commodified in current times.

“The Proof is in the Pudding” is a series of traditional myths and beliefs held around food culture that reveal the scientific basis of which they stemmed from.

“Real Rong,” looks at how authenticity is subverted by marketed and manufactured versions of authentic values and practices.

Fleshed Out examines the potential for involuntary human evolution and mutation following prolonged exposure to the stressors that we regularly come into contact with, manifesting in a future of human beings uniquely equipped for the day-to-day struggles of life.

“At the Root of It” uses hairstyles as a framework to experience and celebrate empowerment asserted by woman against the social restrictions of their times.

Secrets permeate every aspect of society and every area of our life but family secrets are without a doubt the most destructive. People hold onto secrets to keep other people set in their vision of the world and in their vision of themselves. However, secrets in families can be potent and destructive. Families are support systems. Our identity and ability to form close bonds with those around us is rooted upon the trust we feel with our family. The more a family has to lose, the further they go to hide it. “Family” is a series of work that explores secrets of respected families to show that things are not always as they seem.

“Turnabout” is a series of illustrations that analyze the power struggle and the relationship of opposing forces, implying that power comes in forms that are unexpected. It depicts the correlation of how untypical things are able to gain leverage over established superiority in an unintentional way.

“Safety Coerced” highlights unreasonable ways society chooses to protect children from prospective hazards by illustrating the consequences of those regulations and their potential outcomes using real life examples.

Advancements in current technology have made things quicker and easier, but in doing so, current technology has neglected the bodily and mental engagement of the user to themselves, to others and to society. deVICES utilizes qualities of outdated machines that have been weed out to resolve the negative impact current electronics has on our human behaviour.

New forms of cultural hegemony are seen when trendsetting gangs feud for members.

The Laugh of Luxury explores how unnecessary innovation can prevent us from implementing virtue into our lives.

Greetings From… reimagines legendary locations as mundane tourist attractions, calling into question their true worth beneath the veneer of unreachability.

“Monkey See, Monkey Do” portrays today’s childhood experiences that foreshadow societal problems for tomorrow’s adults. This series illustrates the accumulated affect of many poor examples for behaviour that children are exposed to over the course of their formative years.

Explores notable inventions accomplished through dreaming, and will examine how insights can occur subconsciously.

Objects, institutions, and even public figures have been used as tools to spread certain values. “Backfire Stories” examines and questions the dissemination of particular ideologies that led to unintentional or opposite outcomes.

Focusing on biological and psychological mirroring and imitation, “The Concave Mirror” questions the existence of individuality in our society.

This series of visual correlations interprets the methodology of human development and the reason behind it.

Eudaimonia (well-being, human flourishing) has been a controversial subject between philosophers since the term was first introduced. This thesis deconstructs the eudaimonic debate in order to suggest that conflicting concepts of well-being become paradoxical to the very idea itself.

“Immemorial” re-imagines transcultural folkloric narratives as unmoored from any singular cultural context. The common motifs and archetypes depicted allude to shared narrative traditions which transcend the imagined divisions of geography, community, and the passage of time.

Primordial Atom shows the universe as a sentient being by connecting scientific theories to the human experience.