The Singing Pumpkin Drawing

Singing Pumpkin with focus glaze and eye bags. Japanese Sumi ink on thin Japanese paper. Old-school cartoons, surrealism, comics and superflat art blend with grotesque, surrealist, burlesque content, such as talking, singing, angry fruits, discontented objects, pondering animals and a variety of beings with weird eyes. My work is inspired by an eclectic mix of botanical illustrations, surrealist paintings, cartoons and ink comics. I need to connect, explore and map social meanings, and cultural symbols. I often use and recombine essential symbols, used and understood by many cultures around the world over time. The four natural elements (fire, water, wind, earth), the cosmos and stars, time and space, the sun and moon, different types of landscapes (the desert, the jungle, the forest, the grassland), and animals, especially the ones with a strong symbolic meaning (e.g. snails, snakes, toads, etc). I play with these symbols sometimes interpreting and recombining them in a surrealistic way. I’m loyal to surrealism, but eclectic in style.