+ WORK

FINE HUMAN SPECIMENS

We are labeled, categorized, pathologized, told our limitations and sentenced to our projected fate— but in truth, we are all the same... fine human specimens. Beautiful, weird, frightening in parts, alluring in other parts, enchanting, intriguing, distorted, different, full of color, darkness, and light. Everyone sees something different in us based on their own lenses, and all we can hope is that they view us with mercy, find something within us to love.

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IMPULSE SERIES

Artists typically translate their inner worlds— their feelings, thoughts, experiences, world views, and interests into their work. In this series, I have taken a unique approach to translating that inner world by tapping into the subtle frequencies within and allowing the electricity stored in my nervous system to express onto the canvas. This series captures the raw data encoded by a lifetime of experiences— of forceful impacts, highs and lows, energetic disruptions and complications, expansions and contractions, vibrations, hopes and traumas, and electrical impulses. The result— a raw schematic of electricity as it changes moment by moment is revealed.

BEYOND THE SURFACE FORMS OF LIFE

On the surface of life there is a story. This is the level we get stuck on. Often it hurts. It offends us— we take it personally. We replay it mentally over and over and it becomes part of our identity. But diving beneath the surface level, letting the details blur simply into color and shapes that move us in different directions, we can appreciate the ways raw energy beneath the surface of our experiences has shaped us into a unique creation. Everything is just energy moving though us and moving us, causing us to expand and contract, to freeze in some ways and to flow in new ways with more power and greater dimension.

THE BLOOMING TANGLE OF UNFURLING

GANGSTA BUDDHA

The Prayer of The Gangsta Buddha (Symbology on Sculpture or Image):

i. Gold Chain
May you wear your worth like pure Gold. The things that make you feel tarnished are simply life’s treasures, to be discovered once you cleanse them of the pain.

ii. I ♥ Mara Tattoo
May you remember that things that make us suffer are really the same, just distractions from the Light.

iii. Middle Fingers Mudra
‘Mudra’, a Sanskrit word, means a symbolic hand gesture that has the power of producing joy and happiness. It has been proved that regular practice of mudras not only contribute to one’s overall good health but can be used as a preventive measure as well.  The Middle Fingers as a mudra: May you deflect the bullsh*t . You are the Keeper of your inner Light, only let in the things that help it Shine brighter.

iv. The Tattoos
 May you wear your story like tattoos. Surface decoration, nothing that defines you deeper.... Fully tatted 360 degrees, the Gangsta Buddha features many subtle details like lotus blossoms, a PADHiA with signature star, the phrase : "Be The Change Sucka" and "Blesssed".

v. Los Angeles Chest Tattoo
May you always lead with the courage to Go Forth creatively, pursuing the truest callings of your Heart.

vi. Beaming Smile
May you remember the reason we are here is Joy... his beaming smile is a reminder to accept the invitation to Joy that is presented anew in each clear and sparkling moment.

GLITTER FINGER

We get conditioned to certain feeling tones at an early age. We then go on in life filtering what is actually a beautifully neutral reality in order to think the thoughts that replicate these feeling tones. This becomes our belief system and our brain chemistry. We actually become addicted to a certain chemical recipe that was fed to us once upon a time and without realizing it, continue to feed it to ourselves. We also filter out details to match the blueprint of that which impressed upon us during our youth, as adults we can end up living emprisoned by a false reality without even knowing the brighter realms of existence that are truly possible in any given moment. The Glitter Finger is a reminder of the hope, possibility, infiniteness, and light that exists beyond the limiting reality the mind presents as real. 

VINTSPO

LOVE ME ANYWAYS

Love Me Anyways is a thought initiative by PADHiA meant to inspire a shift in the way we feel about ourselves and each other. Often, we hide aspects of our truth out of fear and shame, not realizing that the things that make us the most human are the things that make us the most lovable.

UFYS

This massive multimedia project (of secret title) has been in progress for 8+ years and represents the culmination of my personal experiences plus years of research and study of topics related to biology, psychology, mindfulness, holistic therapy, mental health, physics, mathematics, hope, psychedelics for trauma healing, and neuroscience. Synthesizing all of this together, a profound philosophical work is born exploring the energy beneath the surface forms of life, the formation of the human operating & lens system, and the brilliant way in which this stitches human existence back into the greater narrative of the Universe. The book incorporates street art-style graphics, original iconography, and 19th-century-style scientific illustrations. Set to be published in 2026.

INSTALLATIONS

Julian’s Auctions (collab with Linda Strawberry and Duel Diagnosis), West Chelsea Contemporary & Gallery DeFi

PRINTS & WORKS ON PAPER

APPAREL

IN THE WILD

TATTOOS