Apples to Oranges asks viewers to visually compare the apples and oranges in an observational painting on the lower corner of the canvas. After comparing fruits, some covered by green screen mesh, it is inevitable other comparisons will be made. A patchwork of illusions are presented in physical object textures, pixelated images, and hand painted images. Disparate parts are competing for space in a glitchy, fragmented vision. By asking how we evolve through comparisons, ‘Apples and Oranges’ questions what parts of our experience are rooted in the past and which are newly fabricated by technology. The desire to compare is a human experience that can not yet be replicated by the advancement of technology. Just as the “I am not a robot” CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart") verifies a user, ‘Apples and Oranges’ encourages viewers to compare these fruits to verify their humanness. The individual parts of this painting were created with molded acrylic paint applied to the canvas in a method similar to mosaics. Colors were mixed and filled in custom molds to capture unique textures including a cicada from South Korea, a snowflake doily, and a green slice of bread.

Teacher is an abstracted vision of the role of an educator and the forms that education can take. It aligns the utility of education with the act of viewing a painting, asks the viewer to imagine a painting that presents itself as a teacher. The green screen swatches imply that the contents of the teacher could then be replaced, updated, and customized. The quest for meaning in the age of technological advancement confronts the knowledge capacity of educators. Post-human uncertainty is visualized in patches of green screen textures, while landscapes and sunsets speak of nostalgia for natural places and our daily human lives. Pixelated sections of this work were hand mixed. An apple is painted onto a casting then adhered onto the canvas, among other unexpected details.