Digital Illustration made for print @ 18x24", Made primarily in Adobe Fresco.

Before Heath Ledger's performance in "The Dark Knight" (2008), and then Joaquin Phoenix in the genre-bending "Joker"(2019), I never gave much thought to the persistent Batman villain. I now view the character with layers of complexity, and see him as the psychotic product of a deeply dysfunctional society. He embraces violence and anarchy to find happiness among the cynical and apathetic masses. This, to me, is what makes him so frightening. He represents something dangerous in us all.