Laden with traditional hidden images and an experimentally painted invisible image (viewable via a flashlight or phone camera photograph with taken with flash). This invisible image is inspired by the description of corporeality or embodiment in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and Stay (Faraway, So Close!), a U2 music video directed by Wenders.

Demoralized is a symbolic treatise on the nature of human autonomy, determination and monetary equality.  The artwork began with a set of instructions to an AI application designed to create images from language to use as a preparatory sketch.  The collaboration of human and artificial creativity synthesizes intellect and physicality, the incorporeal and the corporeal. Demoralized adheres to the artist's personal style of Ozark Noir (perceived natural beauty with allusions to decadent mysteries).  

Design influences for Demoralized include Art Nouveau, an international style that developed as societal inequity decreased during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) when more individuals were becoming financially empowered. Art Nouveau artists expressed this egalitarian movement using the woman as seduction and inspiration, the embodiment of the ideal.