252 - End of Babel

The work is a response to near-overwhelming consequences of human excess and hubris, referencing Bruegel’s ’Tower of Babel’, the human world in a state of disintegration, and nature cleansing. The central building is an impossibly large and fragile structure, cellular and wasps’ nest-like, in the process of collapse, a crumbling edifice, taken down by humanity’s rage and self-destructive drive, with nature reclaiming and returning the materials to the land and to the sea. The work is a multi-layered collage of ink drawings. The starting points are the 100+ drawings, individual notes or building blocks, symphonic in their breadth and possibility of combinations, composed in photoshop, re-organised and drawn again with a scalpel - analogue to digital, back to analogue, a symphonic arrangement of marks and motifs, structured, planned but also unexpected and surprising. Seen close-up, and like the subject represented, a fragile surface, loosely held together, precarious and unstable.