The stories in these pieces have developed for weeks, months, even years before they can become paintings. Each figure has a place and story in a world that is a dramatic, terrifying, entrancing extension of our own. The PREMISE is that we have headed into a future that is rife with evidence and consequence of our desires, technologies, hopes, vices, and struggles. This is a world of fight, sin and saintliness, science and spirituality written across the faces of future people. We are headed to this place — what questions does it hold for us?