Created during a walk with my partner in a season of shared grief before the 2024 election, Let’s Go holds a quiet, unsettled encounter that stayed with me. I painted an older man in a blue “Let’s Go Brandon” hat beside a young boy, not as a caricature, but as two people paused in a lived, relational moment. The hat is legible, but the painting asks for a slower kind of seeing that resists quick codification into types or positions. I wanted the image to sit in that space where feeling and attention can move beyond labels and where a charged symbol does not get the final word.
