“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”

Dog delivers the glow of our unquestioning friend with an aura of colour that does not distract from the animal itself.  

“When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one of their own dies, they mourn for days while beating themselves up in sadness for failing to save that gorilla, even if the cause of death was natural. And when one colony is mourning, their chilling echoes migrate to other colonies — and those neighbors, even if they are territorial rivals, will also grieve with them. When faced with a common danger, rivals turn into allies. And when faced with death, the loss of just one gorilla becomes the loss of the entire jungle.”

Gorilla is strong but peaceful, his blue eyes meet yours but there's no mallace.

Gorilla

“Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness”

Unicorn

“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”

Rage

"There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce."

Far Away

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology.

Carl Jung

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life...In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

Albert Camus known for his writing, for the Absurdist school of philosophy and most importantly for advocating choosing one's own purpose in life. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44. Albert could be confused in this piece for James Dean with his nonchalant charm and cigarette dipping from his lip.  

Albert Camus

"I am unlike a mortal lass, From dreams of longing I have passed, I came upon your lonely cries, Revealed beauty to your eyes, So shun the world that you have known, And spend your nights within my own."

Muse

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”

Order From Chaos

"We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how."

Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter.

John Hurt

"There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table."

Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, he is known for his versatility and intense acting style. Oldman is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors to date. Oldman has been married five times.

Gary Oldman

Spaced man is a collection of ten digital pieces each set in a unique spot in the infinite expanse of space.

Exploring the infinite expanse of space and time in his psych-pop-art space suit and super-chilled demeanor. Here he's in a nebula.

Spaced Man

06. 🎨 The Sixth Sphere, Jupiter, The Just Rulers

Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. Here, Dante names Jupiter, the sixth Sphere, The Just Rulers.  

The Just Rulers

05. 🎨 The Fifth Sphere, Mars, The Warriors of the Faith & Cacciaguida

Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. Here, Dante names Mars, the fifth Sphere, The Warriors.  

Warriors of the Faith & Cacciaguida

03. 🎨 The Third Sphere, Venus, The Lovers

Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. Here, Dante names Venus, the Third Sphere, The Lovers. 

The Lovers

02. 🎨 The Second Sphere, Mercury, The Ambitious

Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. Here, Dante names The Second Sphere, Mercury, The Ambitious. 

The Ambitious

01. 🎨 The First Sphere, The Moon, The Inconstant & Beatrice

Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. Here, Dante names The Moon, the first Sphere, The Inconstant. 

The Inconstant & Beatrice

"Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"

Memento mori is a Latin phrase that means “remember that you will die”. It is meant to remind you of your own mortality, and of the brevity and fragility of human life.

Memento Mori

"There came from a southern direction a white man of great stature, who, by his aspect and presence, called forth great veneration and obedience. This man who thus appeared had great power, insomuch that he could change plains into mountains, and great hills into valleys, and make water flow out of stones. As soon as such power was beheld, the people called him the Maker of created things, the Prince of all things, Father of the Sun. For they say that he performed other wonders, giving life to men and animals, so that by his hand marvellous great benefits were conferred on the people. . . . In many places he gave orders to men how they should live, and he spoke lovingly to them . . . admonishing them that they should do good . . . and that they should be loving and charitable to all. In most parts he is generally called Ticiviracocha. . . . [And] that wherever [he] . . . came and there were sick, he healed them, and where there were blind he gave them sight by only uttering words."

“Kon-Tiki Viracocha, the South American civilising hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages, was said to have come to the Andes during a terrifying period, thousands of years in the past, when the earth had been inundated by a great flood and plunged into darkness by the disappearance of the sun. (Exactly like Quetzalcoatl in Mexico, and the Apkallu sages in Mesopotamia, Viracocha's civilising mission in the Andes had been to bring laws and a moral code to the survivors of the disaster, and to teach them the skills of agriculture, architecture and engineering.”

Viracocha

"Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist."

Part of our Hard Surface collection. Here Bowie is front lit by neon strip lights and lit to the right by a neon screen. His face painted onto rough brick giving relief, texture and all adding up to compliment his spectacular features.

Bowie

"If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind? Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind."

Silence has the Buddha sat centered in front of loud garish imagery of 90's television baby-sitting. It conveys feelings of uncomfortable calm in front of an attack of noise - demonstrating a choice of calm over passive listening.

Silence

"Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well."

The 930 Turbo, a 1975 model, still unarguably beautiful and testament to the energy and vision of Ferdinand Porsche. This piece tries hard to overcome the form of the car with its weight but in the end the car remains the center of attention.

Porsche 911 (930 Turbo)

“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!”

Despite our feigned love and appreciation of our world and of the animals, pets and wild, we leave our mark on all of them. Our planet will recover quickly when we are gone in relative terms but how many species will be lost before we destroy ourselves. This piece shows a bronze orangutan, its face graffitied and on a shabby plinth - it will be another silent statement of the inarguable truths of human existence and an invitation to discuss whether we will accept that humans are a scourge and no amount of global warming conferences will help that fact.  

Orangutan

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."

Silver Cloud invites two distant cousins to come together in the Rolls and the Metro. The Metro it turns out is far more important for the survival of the Rolls and swallows it whole several times over. The Rolls doesn't look out of place in the Metro and actually gives a nice harmony to what's being seen - two things beautiful in their own right and created by people but far more beautiful with an absence of people. Without the occupants of the Rolls or the Metro there is no class, no judgement, no status.

Silver Cloud

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.”

The Animus dances with the elephants awkwardly and totally out of its depth. The elephants care-free, the Animus careful. This piece is a reflection of us all on the dance floor of life, holding back, armour on and not having as much fun as we could have.

Dancing Animus

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

This piece is created with a point cloud scan of a location in New York City which was recomposed in Blender. It shows that the darkest and dingiest of places have potential for beauty. It will also drive a wedge between those who see it and those who don't which is a fundamental part of our subjective appreciation of art. 

NYC Tags

The King of Paradise video was created by Gorilla Art for Francien Krieg and XCOLLABZ to celebrate the minting and sale of 'King of Paradise' on Objkt.com

The intention of the video was that it should be a living frame for the painting and something that would put the painting front and center of the viewer's eye whilst also being evocative of a Venetian style environment where the painting would be at home.

King of Paradise

I whimsical reflection on all the great holidays I have taken and have not been able to take for the last few years. Fond memories to hold dear and excitement about making more when possible.

I once went on Holiday #2

I once went on Holiday #1

A neon midnight soiree into water, light and reflective surfaces.

Pipe Dream

“Enoch 39:4 There I saw another vision; I saw the habitations and resting places of the saints. There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels, and their resting places with the holy ones. They were entreating, supplicating, and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness like water flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered over the earth. And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.”

In the Book of Enoch, the watchers are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect en masse to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate among them. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity.

Enoch's Watcher

Snake Skull

"If Music is a place - then Jazz is the city, Folk is the wilderness, Rock is the road, Classical is a temple."

Bats

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

Self-space has Hercules front and center rendered in a metallic surface with a neon depiction of The Birth of Venus by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli. The Space Invaders do their thing - invading space - while Hercules rests from his Labours.  

Gorillaart

Gorillaart