It's All Gone Pear Shaped

‘It’s All Gone Pear Shaped’ is an evocative abstraction that draws on the everyday idiom for sudden collapse and reimagines it as a shared visual language for collective experience. This piece explores the theme of things going ‘pear shaped’ in response to present unrest in the world.

The encapsulated bold colours of the pear represent joy and liveliness.  Chaos surrounds the fragmented beauty disrupts unity and harmony.  Scattered colourful pieces represent both the distribution of a community as well as the beginning of its’ rebuilding.

Subtle netting represents the veil through which humanity chooses to understand present events. 

Rather than depicting destruction alone, the painting evokes a communal response. Freedom, represented by feathers, now trapped by thick, dark walls continue to hold space regardless, representing strength.  

This painting ultimately speaks to resilience and the capacity of communities to hold trauma, honour those affected, and imagine renewal even after the moment of breaking.