This piece started life as an attempt to restage "The Stigmatization of St. Francis," one of Giotto's late 13th century frescoes in the Upper Church of the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi. I always try to use whatever analogous materials I have easily available (photos of toys, scans from old books and magazines, 3d models from the internet) to recreate an image, knowing that this will cause inevitable and unexpected changes to the meaning will creep in. Then I run the resulting collage through digital processes to give it a "painterly" feeling - which results in even more unpredicted changes.
In this case mutatis mutandis ran a little amok, and St. Francis evolved into a kinky medieval penitent making an offering of fruit (plus a bonus Arcimboldo-style memento mori made from what looks like rotting vegetables). The floating seraph, through the miracle of unstable geometry (a 3D model pushed to the breaking point) became some sort of alien jester, looking quite a bit like Scary Monsters era David Bowie as Pierrot.
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