ADRIAN SENA

      My work studies violence and how it is encoded in our unconscious mind. My paintings represent those fragments of acts of violence that are embedded in our memories.

      My project explores memories that are stored in our unconscious mind affecting our personalities more than we could even imagine. Like the tip of an iceberg, only a very small part of the human mind is involved in conscious thought. These feelings represent humans, and our struggle. I want to represent, not only the struggles of my past and that are within me, but also the struggles in the world. It goes beyond mundane, everyday moments, the harsher feelings of the human mind: envy, anger, hate, selfishness, and your own personal limitations.

      My objective of showing struggle, brokenness, identity, and shame are not as a barrier, but as a bridge to transformation, victory, freedom and hope.