i like amy ross.
i especially like her artist statement:
I am interested in the idea of artist as mad scientist. My drawings offer visual hypotheses to the question: what would happen if the DNA sequence of a plant or mushroom were spliced with that of an animal? Using graphite, watercolor, and walnut ink on paper as well as directly on gallery walls in site-specific installations, I portray animals morphed with branches, mushrooms, berries, and blossoms, thus forming implausible hybrid creatures. These images subvert the traditional genre of botanical illustration by approaching the close study of the natural world through the lens of genetic engineering and mutation gone awry.
artist as mad scientist... i like. the picture on her website with the mushrooms-with-legs reminds me so much of fantasia, you know the bit, with the little one that keeps messing up and it's SO CUTE even though it's a dancing mushroom?
ReplyDeleteYES. omg, you so lovedddd that scene when you were wee. we'd have to fastforward to it, then watch it over and overrr
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