In Progress
Papai's late Grandpa's shirt being recreated into a painting, in order to hold onto his memory in an art form.
Experiment with coating dead bees in liquitex gloss pouring medium.
Zoom in of a large painting Papai worked on for most of fall semester, 2024.
A fun small painting of Art the Clown Papai made in response to the 2024 election.
The rug that has been sitting in Papai's family home's indoor porch, unused, to be created into a desire path.
A snow wasteland to be turned into. amuddy slop, though looked beautiful in this stage as well.
The first work of Papai's new body of work in their senior yeaar of college, focusing on memento mori, rot, and the passage of time.
Burn victum study on florecsent background, experimenting with what the artist is interested in and trying to hone in on it.
A work Papai made in response to Valerie Hegarty's "Climbing Rosebush."
First painting for Papai's first ever exhibition.
Color palette swap painting Papai did with artist Jamie Brinker.
Dracula Flo sketch, allowing for the viewer to see Papai's mode of working and the beginning steps.
Tearing canvas and adhering fabrics to the surface in beginning stages of an abstract bodiky painting, giving a slight clue as to how these works were formulated.
In progress shots of the Silly CMYK screen prints of banana cats that were used in a print exchange portfolio.
A wide large abstract bloodly smear the artist did as a background for a figure painting.