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Title: | Colonize |
Date Created: | 9/2021 |
Copyright: | © (c) Shawn E Russell |
Genre: | Unpublished Art |
Mediums: | Graphite Pencil |
Views: | 97 |
Posted: | 12/6/2022 |
Shawn E Russell
Member Since November 2017
Projects: -awards- 2021 Best in 2D Media at Carmel Arts International Arts Festival 2018 Chesley Award Finalist by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists 2018 Best of Show at Dupage Art League 2018 Bronze Category Honor in Infected By Art Volume 6 2015 Semi-Finalist in Good Dinosaur Contest by Deviantart & Disney/Pixar -exhibitions- Quirky Fox, New Zealand Small Works Show September 2021 WOWxWOW Monochromagic 4 Group Show July 2021 EveryDayOriginal.com, on rotation from 2019-Present Dupage Art League Group Exhibition Feb 2018 -publication- Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art Infected By Art Volume 6, 7, 8 & 9
Location: Chicago IL USAA predatory fox colonized by mushrooms inspired by the 'Zombie Ant Fungus' (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis). This piece was a method of processing power inequality/oppression among humans. I paired together a top predator, the fox (which kills to consume nourishment), and it's food, and food of it's prey (mice), the mushroom (which is consumed to nourish others), in a symbiotic relationship with the hope that as nature adapts and rebalances itself, that human culture can follow suit and function symbiotically.