Celebrate The End of Your Life Oil

Celebrate The End of Your Life falls into the Magical Realism Genre, it combines a blurred collage of real world settings/backgrounds- a graveyard, a psychiatric facility, a carousel and a birthday party- with multiple zombie like, unreal creatures in the forefront. They include a humanised bat skeleton which symbolises death, humanised carrion crows and vultures that are known for eating rotten flesh, and a cherub to contrast the darkness but keep the overall intent prevailing. In the centre is a human being devoured by the other figures, it represents myself at the lowest point of hopelessness whilst I was battling Anorexia Nervosa and Depression. This piece is a comment on how Eating Disorder sufferers often already feel deceased whilst still being alive and congratulated on their survival, though their own body and thought are devoured by themself. I needed this piece to convey the intensity and finality of Mental Health issues but in a way that's not so on the nose, to bring about conversation and change.