There’s something to be said about Christina Mrozik’s illustrations. Her otherworldly creations blend together flora and fauna, the natural with the supernatural. In one image, flowers grow out of an owl’s head; in another, plants coil around a snake’s body.
āIām in pursuit of liminal spaces, listening, patience and quiet,ā explained the artist in an interview with Flesh & Bone Magazine. āI think art speaks in ways that words cannot and there is power in both metaphor and image; that there are vague but intense places of emotion and intention that need more room and less definition so that we can exist as the overflowing, messy beings that we are.ā
The Portland-based artist hopes that her work could untangle our messy existence. “We all carry frustrating truths and fears and itās better to untangle and look at them head on rather than deny them for the sake of false stability,” she writes. “There are infinite ways to do this, but art is how I parse the world and these are the things I hope my work could even begin to hold in itās subtle, quiet metaphors.ā
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