I'm really interested in forms created by nature, really interested. Some natural forms that are extremely common or familiar to us are seen as 'normal' and 'right/correct'. But what about when theres is a quirk, a glitch, an abnormal element? How do you feel about it? Suddenly has a MUTANT been created (in capital, bold, piecing letters)? I'm not too sure. Part of me even begins to run through Darwin's evolution theory, trying to form some connection.
I took out a book from CSM library named 'MUTANTS' and I keep flicking through the pages studying the photographs & illustrations feeling both fascinated and guilty. Guilty I am treating these people/animals like a freak-show. There is defiantly a real raw element of beauty in these "Mutants"... above I have paired my drawing of a male Eurasian Golden Oriole bird with some of the images from the mutant book to illustrate this idea.
London central saint martins art drawing illustration birds people science biology
