This series of artwork is based in a style called theatrical surrealism. It explores the theme of mortality and the human condition through figures that contemplate their own exile from a lost eternity. The ephemeral nature of life and reality is emphasized through a surrealistic oddness, reminding us of life's melancholy fragility and the importance of establishing personal meaning through creative contemplation. For without a belief system that offers hope, life's journey may be a lonely and isolating one, shown only too clearly here in the graven faces of these stark penitents who seem forever destined to gaze into the dark depths of an approaching oblivion.
