“To me, I see the paintings as communal spaces, completely open with hardly any walls. Like stages, they are spaces and platforms for events to occur and allow the figures to wander in and out, over ledges and across the divides of inside and outside. This non-hierarchical treatment of space and the figures and animals, reflects my interest in the reciprocal nature of space and ideas within posthumanism.

As I use found images for figure arrangements, I also use my own works for reference. In terms of world building, the change of scale hopes to impact how the paintings are received. Whether there is the invitation to step in, or to be dwarfed by a moment blown up. Whether we as the viewer do the looming or the paintings loom over us.”

—Jessie Makinson