Made Them is a 2018 series that reinterprets the iconic imagery of Marilyn Monroe popularized by Andy Warhol, using a layered mixed-media approach that blends paint, collage, and resin. Rather than replicating the familiar, the work breaks it apart, pulling from the visual language of mass production and celebrity to reconstruct something more fragmented and tactile.

Each piece deconstructs Monroe’s image, one of the most reproduced faces in modern culture, and rebuilds it through physical layering and material contrast. Painted gestures collide with cut imagery, while resin seals and distorts the surface, creating depth that shifts depending on light and perspective. The result is an image that feels both recognizable and unstable, caught somewhere between icon and artifact.

Where Warhol’s work emphasized repetition and flatness, Made Them leans into texture, imperfection, and accumulation. The process itself becomes part of the message, highlighting how cultural figures are not only manufactured, but continuously reshaped, consumed, and recontextualized over time.

At its core, the series explores the construction of fame and identity. By reworking a symbol so deeply embedded in visual culture, the work questions authorship, originality, and the idea of who really “makes” an icon, whether it is the artist, the media, or the audience that sustains it.