American Venom is a photographic series exploring the relationship between consumption, the body, and visual symbols. The work unfolds through minimal scenes and a restrained set of props—fast food, carbonated drinks, national flags, prosthetics, and the human figure—placed within rigorously controlled light and space. They do not explain one another; they simply occupy the frame in quiet tension.
I focus on elements of contemporary visual experience that are both ubiquitous and easily overlooked: mass-produced objects, repeated gestures, and replicated desires. These images draw on personal observation as well as fragments from news, advertising, and everyday life.
The series does not point to any single nation nor offer direct political slogans. Instead, it addresses the desires and pressures that spread and infiltrate through globalized consumer culture.