Original artwork description:

A young Nina Hagen, known as ‘The Godmother of German Punk’ was the inspiring image for this mixed media painting. Pretty much all of the punk aesthetics are so interesting to me. I find a lot in common between the lavish fashion of the punk movement and the trending design of the past centuries in history, similarly marked by excess and extravagance.
I’m often inspired by the difficulty that human nature has in keeping life simple.

While working on this painting I was also thinking about the ways in which we have fun, how we choose to enjoy ourselves while ignoring the very common self-sabotage.

Materials used:

Watercolor, ink, gesso, paper scraps,

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