Alliance (GR-2)
from The Triumph of Romanticism
20" x 20"
acrylic on canvas
2016


Exhibitions
Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas, The Triumph of Romanticism, September 10 - October 15, 2016
Houston, Texas, Visitation, January 14, 2017
Houston, Texas, November Open Studio, November 10, 2018
 

Alliance (GR-2) captures the fantasy of ownership—not of objects, but of dreams. A smiling figure holds a vintage Keystone camera, her expression wide, gleaming, and impossibly sincere. It’s not documentation—it’s advertisement. The image stages a life of creativity, joy, and aesthetic control, but the performance is too perfect to be real. This is not the artist at work—it’s the consumer at play, sold a vision of fulfillment through curated nostalgia.


The green star in the upper corner marks the chromatic zone of the work—green as vitality, aspiration, and the aesthetic of lifestyle marketing. The numeral “2” in the bottom corner situates the piece within the Alliance constellation, signaling its position in a sequence of chosen alignments.


Beneath the figure, a faint grid suggests structure—perhaps film stock, perhaps a ledger. It’s a quiet reminder that even dreams are formatted, measured, and sold. The camera, once a device of authorship, becomes a symbol of ownership: the fantasy that happiness can be captured, branded, and possessed.


Alliance ( GR-2) reveals how poetic ideals have been repackaged as lifestyle commodities. The dream is no longer written—it’s marketed. The image is not a memory—it’s a pitch.


Alliance (GR-2) is a pledge to the fantasy of the perfect life—sold in smiles, framed in vintage, and staged for belief.