The research topics most relevant to my studio art practice are branding, advertising and semiotics (the study of sign systems and their meanings). My intention is to formulate a critique of capitalist globalization that closely examines the relationship between corporate insignia and the means of commodification. I will present the research behind my large-scale paintings, in which I appropriate logos of national or multinational corporations to create images that are reminiscent of traditional Western religious imagery, thus creating analogies between globalization as proselytization and brand loyalty as faith.