Immortals
Exhibition held at College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, 2016
As a species, we yearn for a higher understanding, religious or otherwise, usually at the price of disconnecting ourselves from the surrounding world. Through this work I examine the relationships between our spiritual selves and other species that inhabit this planet with us.
Mankind often struggles to accept our true selves, our primal selves. Instead we have created rules of purity and cloaked it in many forms, one being religion. With religious faith comes the desire to reach unachievable aspirations to satisfy a/the God/s.
Borrowing from western religious iconography, I have replaced human archetypes with animals. I bring to question man’s relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom, while attempting to disrupt the hierarchy of existence. I am elevating these animals as holy individuals, not only amongst their species, but within the entire global kingdom.
Mankind often struggles to accept our true selves, our primal selves. Instead we have created rules of purity and cloaked it in many forms, one being religion. With religious faith comes the desire to reach unachievable aspirations to satisfy a/the God/s.
Borrowing from western religious iconography, I have replaced human archetypes with animals. I bring to question man’s relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom, while attempting to disrupt the hierarchy of existence. I am elevating these animals as holy individuals, not only amongst their species, but within the entire global kingdom.
