I created this piece in 2019, using black gel pen and colored sharpies on paper.

“Warhol of the Worlds” is a parody of Andy Warhol’s famous chicken soup paintings, in which one brightly-colored soup can has transformed into a grotesque noodle monster akin to the alien tripods from H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The friendly colors and geometric regularity of Warhol’s works are mirrored here, but skewed at a chaotic angle.

Warhol’s original paintings symbolized mass-market consumerism in the 60s, and this piece symbolizes the same thing in modern times. The message is hostile and blunt. Capitalism is reified as a monstrous, oppressive, alien presence appropriating the form of the ordinary.