Escapist Bookmarks
Linocut on Rag Paper
How does the same species who write poems of love and epic novels also cut down forests and make bombs?
My works attempts to explore this, contrasting the destruction with creation, urban with natural, the real and unreal.
Contrasting common scenes of fiction stories with destructive elements of our world, my bookmarks rudely break the escapism of literature and fantasy.
Slightly comedic, this questions the separation and unreal-ness I feel regarding the true events in the news compared to the enthralling world of fictional media that I know is not real.
Depicted is a romantic French style café where a character reads an article about a tragedy, a faery scene overshadowed by coal power station, a Knight and castle accompanied by ground to air missiles, an elf in a hobbit hole style house with a mushroom cloud in the background and a pegasus flying with bomber planes.