School Bus Oil Fantasy Painting

This work stages an arresting collision between innocence and militarized power, transforming an armored silhouette into a brightly painted “school bus” that reads as both joke and warning. The flat, studio-grey ground isolates the object like an exhibit or evidence, letting the saturated reds and yellows perform a brittle cheerfulness that cannot fully mask the threat implied by the long cannon and tracked undercarriage. Peace symbols and playful lettering become uneasy veneers—suggesting how civic life, education, and childhood can be conscripted into propaganda or normalized violence through design. In its crisp, toy-like finish, the piece seduces the eye even as it asks what we accept when danger is made legible in the language of play.