2023

Resin collage painting 

DEAD ATOM SHORE
2023
Mixed media collage

This piece was a continuation of my journey into epic large scale resin mixed media paintings that depict the 12 universal human experiences:

Birth and Childhood, Relationships, Emotions, Suffering and Challenges, Aging, Death, Quest for Meaning, Creativity and Expression, Learning and Education, Cultural and Spiritual Beliefs, Striving for Improvement, Survival Instinct.

Each piece has a particular focus on a unique human experience. My previous piece ‘The Final Dance’ looked into the subject of Relationships where I depicted “Relationships”. With this piece “DEAD ATOM SHORE” I wanted to depict Birth, Childhood and Aging. Central to the piece is the Mother, both our human mother and an embodiment of the universe itself. Calm, stoic, wise, in control, all knowing and powerful. Before her are the events and theatre of humanity. In her presence the events seem trivial and unimportant. But to the characters existing in the painting there is drama, tragedy and comedies.

The painting contains many cryptic visual riddles, placed there for the viewer to untangle.
Some interesting character's to note:

- At the bottom right is a collage of a young boy and on the bottom left there is an old man. There is a very literal journey of life flying through this piece. The piece depicts the coming of age of a boy, with corrupting entities surrounding and enticing him.

- At the foot of the painting there are hundreds of identical white men dressed in flamboyant aztec outfits who depict the toxic masculinity present in our world, an ever alluring draw for young men

- Also present is a woman declaring that “Earth is doomed!” a flamboyant satire-like declaration of how our lives are constantly interrupted to inform us of how bad the world is and that death is imminent, always shortly followed by a flood of advertisements and political agenda’s. We are much more useful when we are scared