The Hallowed Himbos

The Hallowed Himbos transforms familiar pop-culture masculinity into something devotional, strange, and tender. Using monoprint and image transfer, figures like Burt Reynolds and David Hasselhoff are reimagined as saints and relics—haloed, reclining, and slowly dissolving into pigment and texture.

These works lean into material slippage: incomplete transfers, emulsion drag, and chromatic decay become part of the meaning. As the images break down, the figures shift from icon to afterimage, holding humor, desire, nostalgia, and critique at once. The series treats the himbo not as a joke, but as a contemporary archetype—sanctified through repetition, memory, and the soft erosion of time.