Objects Of Fetish

Medium: Texta, Chalk, Pencil, Charcoal, acryllic paint on paper

Dimension approximate in cm (WxH): 14.8 x 21

Drawings of objects sexualized by the environment or exploited by humans.

The interaction between environment and pollution is erotic.

Bottles sink to the ocean’s bottom, their body molested by the underwater world. Algae crawls and sinks it’s teeth into it, making it theirs. The shells voyeur. Plants and fish thrust inside, impregnating the bottle, growing a whole new ecosystem. It’s now apart of the ocean, reworked. A metamorphosis of the object being given a new life. When the ocean is finished, it sends it back up to shore, a gift to humans with love.

Salt-lakes are violent and dominant. Carcasses are eaten out until their bones are bleached. The salt exposes the pipes buried underneath, eating it out until It’s rusted then gone. Cleansing it’s environment.

Caves, vulnerable to human intervention, are emptied by the fetish for mining. Truck tracks overlapping, surrounding geodes, extracting them. The submissive caves have no option but to surrender it’s control or collapse and kill itself for defence.

Process:

I used white chalk over alcohol markers, layering different colours and smoothing the gradient with chalk. It absorbed the marker, spreading the colour with texture, creating movement in the backgrounds. White acrylics were used for highlights. Coloured pencils and graphite were used for smaller details. The skull and shell were objects I collected, photographed then traced. The rusted pole was referenced from a photograph I took. They showed the contrast between man-made and natural objects. I ran over “Tire Marks” with my car to get the black marking, symbolising the destruction left in mining on the environment.