Silver Bullet

Themes

• Environmental protection and active defense of natural habitats.

• Nature as its own technology for solving sustainability problems, versus a victim of technology.

• Industriousness and ambitious collective action for the benefit of an ecosystem.

• Ironic use of military industrial iconography.

• Analog folk art and domestic kitsch as a weapon against authoritarianism and attacks on environmental conservation institutions and regulatory structures.

Style

• Folk art and “cottagecore” kitsch.

• 1990s hand-painted magazine illustration. 

• Influences from magazine illustration exhibitions at the Society of Illustrators in New York.

• Mural and street concept art of the early 2000s.

“Silver Bullet,” 2026, 8×6 inches. Oil on canvas mounted on foam board.