“Heavy Metal explores painting and the parasocial, by using images as a mediator between myself and the work. Images are blurred and cropped as a way to abstract detail, isolating how colour, values and light interact with the surface(s). The isolated objects then demand to be seen as an interval between legibility and merely impressions; questioning the way I look at my relationship with history and memory. Distance actualizes in the process of making; as the airbrush offers an aspect of painting in which I never come in physical contact with the surface. In my process of painting, I both investigate and challenge my own relationships to history, painting and my own positionality. Through the exploration of these images, I sought to uncover how ideas of the past begin to reflect the attitudes towards contemporary aesthetics in Western popular culture. ”