By capturing sequential frames from a 1980s cult classic horror film, this black-and-white painting emits an almost stop-motion-esque quality via blunt smears of oil paint. Its monochromatic starkness, violent brushstrokes, and blurred frames mimic the original film's atmosphere of chaos and anxiety. With logical registers of time and sequence melting in dark dissolution, the overwhelming whole symbolizes mass media consumption's violence, vapidity, and drama through a remote and abstract lens.

Through his paintings, wooden sculptures, videos, and installations, Aris Azarmsa uses chaotic yet meditative layers to evoke feelings of displacement. By pushing and pulling at the dimensional boundaries of his anonymously populated scenes, Azarmsa breaks out of the spaces in his compositions in unusual ways.