Alexandra Evans
Shipwreck'd, 2016
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
 
In an age of perpetual war, natural disasters, and widespread existential dread, I attempt to create spaces where myth and the supernatural confront contemporary realities. Nature occupies a central role in my current work, appearing as anthropomorphized and animated forms that reflect the intertwined crises of consumerism and ecological collapse. Plastic bags, wreckage, and debris swirl in a cesspool of post-consumer waste. These remnants of culture inhabit an imagined, neo-surrealist space that exposes the vacuous nature of human consumption and the persistent urge to fill the void with ephemeral goods that rot and decay while their containers outlive us all. The empty space within a single-use plastic bag reflects the dilemma of the human condition itself. The timelessness of nature and myth is the antithesis of a fleeting human existence. That which does not endure will be consumed, destroyed, and overtaken by nature once again.