Medium: Laser-engraved illustration on natural maple wood

Dimensions: 12 inches x 18 inches

Year: 2025

These pieces immortalize the iconic Rat Pack—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and at time Peter Lawford—as more than entertainers: as eternal emblems of charisma, rebellion, and cultural transformation. Their faces, engraved with expressive precision into the grain of raw birch wood, are framed by a chaotic halo of hand-drawn iconography—dice, cocktails, microphones, martini glasses, crowns, and neon jazz notes.

The work captures the contradictions of the era they ruled: glamour and grit, swagger and sensitivity, fame and friction. The Rat Pack didn’t just define an era; they blurred the lines between performer and prophet, outsider and insider, excess and elegance.

Executed in a modern pyrographic style that fuses pop art, graffiti, and American folk iconography, this portrait channels the raw, lived-in energy of Las Vegas at its peak, while also confronting the myth-making that followed.