So, let’s say that in the next thousand years or so mankind manages to finish itself off, through war or disease or meteor strike or whatever. What would happen to the planet then? Would the houses and office building become decaying monuments to our lost species, like fossils written large? What new species would arise in a few million years to replace us, to live inside the bones of our empty structures? When I look at the works of Ryan Browning I see a new race of simple, geometric creatures populating the Earth in our wake. Something about the way he paints the figures makes them seem less like shapes and more like living beings, like they’re interacting with the environment around them. It’s hard to verbalize, but, whatever it is, I like it a lot. It feels like I’m looking at portraits instead of semi-abstract works.
{ 2009 09 02 }
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