Synapse

The painting explores the social dynamics that occur in a context where a cult of personality is arising. The Lego figure on the right is the only one with a face and it's an upside-down face. It also spilled the cup of wine (the wine is - in this case - a visual metaphor for blood). This figure symbolizes the negative role model which the central figures want to emulate (they are painting themselves with the same color as him, and the correction fluid bottle bears an inverted smiley face on it). In doing so, though, they disregard the negative outcomes of distorting their own identity. The leftmost figure on the candle holder uses some tape to attach a photograph of a flame on the already unlit candle (hence the smoke), thus trying to mask reality or maybe even construct an artificial one.