galaxypink

Mouse and Bear

Added 2015-05-08 16:17:21 +0000 UTC

"I-I think I picked the wrong station."

I've always liked the sort of "The city gets weird after midnight" movies like Quick Change, After Hours, or Cold Dog Soup, for example, and of course I love fantasy, folklore, and fairytales. Not too long ago, I read Neverwhere, and American Gods, both by Neil Gaiman. Both of those books combine the sort of "weird city" (particularly Neverwhere) and fantasy/folklore genres beautifully.

I guess that's kind of where I was going with this. I think this image implies a larger story, provokes an emotional reaction, and invites a lot of questions - which is pretty good for any piece of art.

*Actually I was just fucking around with my design process, and accidentally gave a normal girl mouse ears, decided to run with it, put her in the first modern era set piece I saw laying around, and then decided she needed a companion - and I actually love how the story this image evokes is kind of an emergent quality that grows out of the image itself, rather than out of my intentions as the artist. That might be why even though I made it, it kind of gives me a strange, powerful feeling - like danger, and wonder, like "I'm looking into a world I'm not supposed to know about, they know they've been seen and I might be in danger, but I'm too fascinated to look away."

I think next week or something, I'll also put it on DeviantART and share it with a larger audience, but for now it's just for you guys. ^_^