A dog, bird, cow, machine, and elephant among man

“Evoking a parade, a chaotic whirl of flesh and motion highlights the similarities in what is organic but still mechanical. This vibrant work is an evaluation of the flesh as machine and the machine as something familiar and intuitive. On an apocalyptic horizon, in the Nowhere Land of the future, animal, man, and machine morph into more than the sum of their parts in a dervish of celebratory life—animation in a landscape where there might otherwise be none.” Interpretation by Heather John

Artist’s Statement

Inspired by paintings by famous artists like Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso, I wanted to illustrate the suffocating effect stress has on my own body and mind. This surreal and somewhat cubist painting illustrated how structure surrounding a man can also be the source of great chaos. The animals and organic shapes juxtapose the structure – as if to say “nature of human stress response also is not helping.”