Ignominious, 2026

11" x 14" acrylic on board.

Ignominious presents the nightmare not as chaos but as ritual humiliation made mythic. A gaunt, insect-like creature straddles the still body of a fallen figure, its clawed limbs pinning the dreamer to the earth as if performing an ancient rite of shame or psychic extraction. The barren plain stretches endlessly beneath a troubled sky, amplifying the sense that this encounter occurs outside ordinary time—in the wasteland of the subconscious where fears take on bodies of their own. The creature’s beaked face and chitinous form feel both predatory and ceremonial, like a herald of darker truths that visit only when the mind is defenseless. In Ignominious, the nightmare becomes a symbol of the moment when dignity collapses and the hidden parasites of the psyche rise to claim their uneasy dominion.