Art

Everything, everywhere

Over the past year, my work can be summarized as football culture art. I am not interested in the pristine and glamorous professional pitches. Rather, I investigate themes of pride, nationalism, and masculinity through often overlooked football moments, closer to the families gathering around an old TV, or fans wearing bootleg jerseys.

In the past, I've explored other themes such as nostalgia, childhood, and stillness in topics beyond soccer. Most of my work consists of fantasized and theatrical retellings of my own lived experiences, where the subjects are an amalgamation of friends, family, and self-portraits.

Though I've mostly worked with graphite, ink, and colored pencils on paper, past works include oil and acrylic painting, as well as substantial digital manipulations and illustrations.

Below, find a collection of selected works throughout the years. Learn more about specific projects I've participated in on their dedicated pages. Enjoy!

Work, roughly chronological

Graphite drawing: A player lays over a dinner table, surrouneded by half-used plates and cups. Three older figures wearing suits, sit over the player wielding cutlery. A final figure, off-frame, holds a covered serving tray.
Color pencil drawing: Sporting Cristal player has lost a tooth and is receiving medical care from two hands emerging off-frame. Behind him, two teammates argue passionately with an apathetic referee
Digital painting: two players wearing San Lorenzo jerseys share a kiss on the cheek, as one substitutes the other on the field
Color pencil drawing: figure wearing a Peñarol shirt looms over two other figures – one looks scared and one faces away from the viewer
'Que Grandes Que Somos' ink drawing: figure wearing a football uniform curled over a blank background, text above figure reads 'Que Grandes Que Somos
'Registro Civil de Nascimiento (desde la cuna)' ink drawing: child looks up while disembodied hands put on a football jersey over him
'suegro como ve al Cali' graphite drawing: two older male figures wearing football jerseys sneak a cigarette and have a conversation
'I want to be astro boy' framed poster, part of the Poster Project
'héroe sudaca (the world is yours)' digital painting: a figure wearing an oversized football uniform and holding a football is swarmed by flashing cameras and microphones
'héroe sudaca (the world is yours)' graphite color pencil drawing: a figure wearing an oversized football uniform and holding a football is swarmed by flashing cameras and microphones
'help' digital intervention over photograph: cartoon-like knight doodled over black-and-white cityscape
Town of Davidson Banner: a red and a blue hand grasp each other in support
'Among the Dead' poster: sillhouette of a knife pierces over a can of spam. Text reads 'Davidson Theater Department. 2020-21 Season. Among the Dead. Written by Hansol Jong, directed by Ariel Chung'