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Artist: Nicolas Farrell
Digital Collage
December 2022
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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A face disguised in paint and a chest disguised in a suit are stacked on top of bare legs clad in red high heels. Fluffy white wings suspend this mismatched person in space above a spinning planet. Eyes, a nose, and mouthless teeth loom over the scene to the left.
A meteor leaves a pink trail that divides the winged figure from the massive face. Written beneath are the words: “God and Angel.” Behind the angelic body is a staircase. Is it leading to heaven? Are the stacked houses that border the right side of the image heaven? Or is the staircase leading to something else? Simply, they lead to an eternal, cosmic void, they
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Nicolas Farrell is a member of the Class of 2025, majoring in Elementary Education and Applied Psychology.
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“This piece was inspired by the idea of what the afterlife may look like. I utilized the aesthetic of dreams in this collage in order to convey the completely different consciousness we may experience after we die. Will there be God and an angel to greet us? A stairway to another life? Or a cosmic void we will fade away into endlessly?”
Article by: Kate Kemp