Cards

In this series, I satirize the hypermasculine messages depicted in collectible cards. Images of athletes, comic book characters, military personnel, and government entities are cut up and recast into absurdist vignettes that erode patriarchal narratives and American exceptionalism.

The material is sourced from my personal collection that was rediscovered during a recent move. Many of these cards were purchased during the 1980s and 1990s, known as the “junk wax era,” where millions on millions of units flooded markets and impressionable minds. These pocket-sized keepsakes depict misogyny, glorification of war, and bolster binary thinking, evincing an ethos aligned with the time and which lingers today.

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