Collective Symbols / Beings

Collective Symbols / Beings brings together a series of pastel drawings where myth, memory, and materiality intertwine. Figures with titles such as Prometheus, Dante, Arcadian, Symbiosis and Sovereign Spirits emerge from luminous fields of color, evoking archetypes that feel both ancient and newly invented. These are not illustrations of myths but reimaginings: presences that blur between dream and apparition, between the individual and the collective.

The choice of soft pastel is essential. Its fragility contrasts sharply with the permanence of plastic, a material central to Mr Fat Plastic’s wider practice. Pastel exists at the edge of dissolution, always vulnerable to touch, while plastic is the durable fossil of modern consumer culture. Placed together, they speak to the tension between ephemerality and permanence, imagination and commodity, dust and fossil.

These beings are collective rather than solitary. In works such as Brotherhood or Symbiosis, forms overlap and bleed into one another, suggesting relational identities rather than closed figures. They echo the idea that symbols arise not from one mind alone but from shared cultural memory.

While they resonate with visionary traditions from Blake to Friedrich, these works look not toward the sublime but toward thresholds. They imagine fragile, atmospheric presences that feel attuned to our current ecological moment, where boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the human and the more-than-human, are dissolving.

The beings of Collective Symbols dwell in this liminal space. They are fragile yet resonant, intimate yet collective. They remind us that myth is never static, but continually remade through images that carry both the weight of history and the vulnerability of dust.