This large-scale painting draws on a visceral encounter with a trio of vultures observed and photographed in Brazil — transformed here into an allegorical vision of the human conditon.
At the forefront, one vulture lunges aggressively at another, beak bared, wings splayed — a striking embodiment of aggression, violence as self-protection. The second bird, subject to the attack, recoils with tense desperation, gripped by the clinging impulse of aversion, its posture a twisted plea for possession or survival. Behind them, almost fading into the white sands and partial obscured, a third vulture looms — still, watchful, and detached — the embodiment of apathy, or ignorance.
Rendered in a palette that shifts between a white spacious background symbolising infinity, the bruised blues and black of the birds stand out. The painting captures the haunting interrelation of these destructive impulses. The birds become more than scavengers — they are archetypes of the human condition, locked in a cycle of suffering and reaction, playing out an ancient and universal drama.
This large-scale painting draws on a visceral encounter with a trio of vultures observed and photographed in Brazil — transformed here into an allegorical vision of the human conditon.
At the forefront, one vulture lunges aggressively at another, beak bared, wings splayed — a striking embodiment of aggression, violence as self-protection. The second bird, subject to the attack, recoils with tense desperation, gripped by the clinging impulse of aversion, its posture a twisted plea for possession or survival. Behind them, almost fading into the white sands and partial obscured, a third vulture looms — still, watchful, and detached — the embodiment of apathy, or ignorance.
Rendered in a palette that shifts between a white spacious background symbolising infinity, the bruised blues and black of the birds stand out. The painting captures the haunting interrelation of these destructive impulses. The birds become more than scavengers — they are archetypes of the human condition, locked in a cycle of suffering and reaction, playing out an ancient and universal drama.