It was past midnight at my job I was getting ready to leave and I saw this praying mantis sitting on the window. I had been seeing them all week from photos to people just bringing them up. This photo inspired me to do a drawing and then eventually a…
Excerpt from Historia general de las Indias y conquista de México (General History of the Indies and Conquest of Mexico) by Francisco López de Gómara, first published 1552. In La cosmographia by Peter Apian, 1575.
I have always struggled with falling asleep, so I wanted to depict the opposite of my reality. I chose to represent myself in a womb-like dream space where I am floating in a comfortable state. I wanted to use a common symbol of sheep related to the…