ARTWORK DETAILS

Jessica Neck The Gap State High School
Magical Thinking
35 x A5 ink drawings on Canson paper.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The human race is the most culpable curator of natural absurdism. Our relative inability to gain truly intimate access to their world, informs our absurd perceptions and behaviours in response to the creatures we share this planet with. This work is a hybridised amplification of my perceptions of the Earth’s varied natural landscapes, surrealism, mysticism and the experience of Magical Thinking. A psychological phenomenon, Magical Thinking references the idea that an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions can change or manipulate a specific event. It is a parable of sorts, describing the human condition with respect to the surging climate crisis.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jessica Neck