Allegorical Self-Portrait

Themes

• Parenting at middle age.

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

• Ironic use of military industrial iconography to convey protection.

• Folk art and domestic kitsch as a metaphor for safety.

Style

• Late 19th Century portraiture.

• 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.

Reverse Progression to Original Sketch