Technology has hijacked our reality. This Office Painting series is my response. These artworks explore the deleterious effects of computerized corporate environments on the human psyche. Appropriated scenes of conventionalized professionalism are recharged with implied—often seemingly inappropriate—emotions. The historically sterile rationality of the office and its archaic technology dissolves into a mundane and gaudy nightmare. The figures that inhabit these visions assume a soulless “narcotic gaze” in a desperate attempt to survive accelerating change in an imploding world. Racism, sexism and the dynamics of abusive hierarchical power linger just beneath the surface. Bright colors flood otherwise neutral spaces as linear perspective gives way to fragmented space and distorted shapes. Although made to address issues of contemporary society, my work is also autobiographical. Painting is, for me, a deliberate return to process—a practice that is often rendered obsolete by emerging technologies and the race for greater productivity and efficiency.