Also an exhibit which featured many of these works and others, Collective Disappearance was inspired by my deep passion for dance music and the culture in which it has birthed.  The collection is filled with little artifacts Ive created reflecting various experiences Ive had at events around the world.  Disco balls, to me, signify a fractured reality, and so they remain an important motif in my work. The disconnected characters that appear in my paintings are supposed to represent neither subject nor object, but simply another element melted into a strange and dreamlike atmosphere. While some pieces signify self-relinquishment, others depict literal representations of clubs, outdoor parties and after-hours through my personal perceptual lens.

The last time we have seen a united youth culture of this magnitude was during the hippie and free-love movement, whose blanket of solidarity was also adhered by the threads of music. While the hippies motives were political, one young nation under peace, their protest was an active one. It could be said that the ideology of the Electronic Dance Music scene protests instead through some level of passivity. Antonio Melechi defines this subtle rebellion as "collective disappearance" a revolution where a parallel society comes alive after the rest of the world is sleeping, one which rejects the boundedness of human beings exclusive reliance on measurements via space and time, one which invents an atmosphere of its own.

The dance music scene is defined by its festive nature, the party being a mere end in itself. It allows for the momentary loss of identity, both for us as individuals and for us as a collective whole. It enhances the id by eliminating the ego. A pure and genuine expression of the ephemeral, there is a remarkable sense of connectivity in which one can revel for hours, a sense of unity that is void in every-day life. There is a phenomenon here, one in which self-abandonment ends up bringing us closer to ourselves, and in turn, closer to each other. We bond, authentically, over the shared pointlessness and non-goal oriented nature of our present doings, as the synthetic sounds of techno return us to a primitive feeling of senseless enjoyment.