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Early Arrival or Sudden Exit, , 2018, digital collage, 48" x 33"
As Above So Below, 2018, digital collage, 48" x 33"
As Above So Below Study
Series 14: Quartet Pounder 2020, 33" x 22"
Untitled, 2018, digital collage, 33" x 9"
Series 14: Quartet Pounder 2020, 33" x 22"
About Selected Works In This Series
Premature Arrival or Sudden Exit, Digital Collage, 2018
Premature Arrival or Sudden Exit depicts a person traveling between destinations. We are not sure whether he is coming or going. As the flow of the physical world, which appears as ghostly images, moves from left to right in the collage, his perpendicular path moves into the background. The red paint splatters symbolize blood associated with both birth and sudden death.
As Above, So Below, Digital Collage, 2018
“As Above, So Below” could be the next frame in a storyboard after “Early Arrival or Sudden Exit.” Like the rest of the art in this series, it is about the crossing over from this world to the next. When I created this series, I was very interested in mythological stories of travel between death and the afterlife, and in the psychopomps who attend this journey. I imagined something satirical, like an airport or a train station, some kind of hub where souls are coming and going all the time.
In “As Above, So Below,” you see a figure in the process of crossing over. He is still within our world, as shown by his solid color. His mind has begun the journey (scrambled paint around his head), and he sees the afterlife through a window, where everything looks ghostly from this view. The lavender sun/orb, the only colorful image in the transparent afterlife, acts as a beacon. Notice a subtle detail at the bottom of the piece: he is the only figure outside the window. The space between him and the window is the threshold of life/death and, for me, the most important part of the piece. The psychopomp (mustached man) kindly greets him, arm outstretched across the threshold to guide the newcomer. The psychopomp is the only figure who can exist on both sides of the threshold. The rest of the beings in the afterlife go about business as usual because, after all, death is a constant happening.
Software: Photoshop | Techniques: Photo Collage, Digital Illustration