Wild-Life

‘Wild-Life’, acrylic, spray paint and pencil on canvas. 183x91.5x5cm (2013)

Size (H x W x D): 91.5 x 183 x 5 cm
Year created: 2013

About this piece:
Acrylic, spray paint and pencil on canvas (2013)
This piece is from my 'wild' series, which are about nature wearing the colours of man like war paint, trying to adapt to man's intervention. The fluorescent paint also looks like energy radiating from the animal, as it is painted on the places I find most intense, usually around the eyes, radiating down the neck - wherever there is tension. I use a lot of hummingbirds in my work as I find them magical and otherworldly, they are so tiny and beautiful they almost seem as they are not part off this world, like they exist on another dimension. Here they are forming the figure 8 on its side, which is the symbol for life, eternity and reincarnation. The hummingbird also flys in this formation as it is the only bird that can fly backwards. The colours are moving through the formation to show they are all part of the same flow of energy.....