Wood, black paint, twigs, playdoh, skull beads, lightbulb, paper, religious statue
A piece I made, painted predominately in black spray paint. I wanted to be more abstract.
I used twigs to create a wood at night- they can be mysterious and haunting places and also isolated.
Below the woods is the earth underneath with the roots connecting the two sections. I set the skull beads into the 'earth' to convey the dead as isolated, forgotten and many. Also as lonely.
I used a lightbulb in part to convey the moon, it also has a eye on it which echoes Picasso's 'Guernica' in which
an all seeing eye/ lightbulb is illuminating nothing - used in this case to symbolise our ignorance of our mortality.
I also used a little religious statute to convey faith and hope that there is something after death- though it is tarnished by the paint as if the hope is fading.
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