Parasite Paradise (2023) Artwork

Parasite Paradise (2023) shows a chimera with a human head, body of a red cardinal bird and a pair of crocodile feet with cherry blossom branches growing out from her left eye. She holds a teddy bear on her left wing while a mini yellow taxi rides on her ocean-waves hair. In the background, four worlds seem to collide and converge behind her; the underwater world with a sheep residing among the sparse coral reefs, a lonely autumn tree hollowed for a merry-go-round ride with an opened mouth at its crown, a small town with pink grass and gigantic green eyes, and a four-poster bed in the outer space that has an orange ear floating on its roof. This mixed media artwork is an outrageous extrapolation of the future as a result of poor environmental management. In this warped reality, as humans continue to exploit our finite resources, the accumulation of pollutions caused drastic mutations in the ecosystem, even extending to outer space. Eventually, everything falls apart, with land animals living under water, humans becoming part of the nature where organs sprouts among plants, and human infrastructure randomly appearing in space.