Random piece of info #1

Josh Keyes (born August 17, 1969 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American contemporary artist who currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. His work is a hybrid of eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth's future.

"My work often contains a hybridization of concepts and imagery that express global concerns about ecological, political, and militarism issues. I try to create work that fuses my personal mythology and imagery with these concerns. The result is a continuous and evolving pattern of fragmented imagery that slowly unfolds and folds like a patchwork quilt. The work functions for me as a record of both my personal history and interpretation of events in the world.”

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Although I don't agree with some of the modern environmentalism ideas, I like animals, especially deer, and Keyes painted a lot of them! Yes, I borrowed my avatar from one of his works =)
Also, I find the whole idea of life on Earth after humans strangely appealing - not that I would want humans to disappear, but it's pretty nice fictional variation of post-apocalyptic world, I think.

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Some works:

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