Medium: Laser-engraved illustration on natural maple wood

Dimensions: 12 inches x 18 inches

Year: 2025

Hollywood Icons is a portrait series carved in both worship and warning—a meditation on beauty, identity, and the emotional wreckage beneath the spotlight. These five figures—Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift—defined not only an era of cinematic allure, but also the myth of the American dream: gifted, fragile, unforgettable, and doomed in some essential way.

Elvis Presley – The King as tragic god. His engraving hums with gospel fire and Warhol flash, surrounded by spectres of greed, lightning bolts, and a silhouette that’s more product than person. A man swallowed by his own image.

Together, they form a chorus of golden-era spirits—icons not only of stardom, but of the emotional cost of being consumed by it. In each engraved face, there’s not just glamour, but fracture. Not just spotlight, but shadow.