Kill the Smile is a reflection on the lifecycle of pop culture symbols and their gradual exhaustion through overexposure and commodification.
The work reinterprets the iconic “smile” not as positivity, but as a fragile cultural construct emptied of meaning. White ornamental patterns create a surface of artificial purity and control, while yellow drips interrupt the composition like ruptures, suggesting decay and erosion.
These disruptions act as metaphorical impact points, where the symbol fractures under cultural saturation. What once represented happiness becomes a site of collapse.
Kill the Smile speaks to the death of icons in contemporary culture—not through disappearance, but through their transformation into noise.