Buddhism-ism, explores Buddhist imagery, religious ideals and our ever-changing relationships to these highly charged images. They are heavily influenced by Chinese ink paintings and calligraphy due to the artist’s current exploration into Asian traditions and pop-culture. They take a humorous look at the evolution of the likeness of Buddha in popular imagery and in religious art, whilst examining the emerging generations romanticized and highly idealized knowledge level of the figurehead that shapes much of their belief systems. The subtle transformations from perfect proportions, graciousness of the physical form and the mutated idealizations are pushed to extremes in this series of Chinese ink paintings allowing a critical and humorous discourse to propagate.
