Fine Art Friday: ROA, Valerie Hegarty

Both of these artists deal with similar themes, but in two completely different ways, and I enjoy the darkness of them both. Using the concept of decay and neglect for the Earth, both artists approach the subject with destructive yet amazing results.

ROA tends to work in public spaces, often forcing the wounded or trapped animals to interact with the preexisting construction around it, as a comment on man's encroaching elimination and destruction of natural spaces around the globe.

Valerie Hegarty deals with the concept of decay with a similar nod to destruction, but more in the sense of a metaphorical rediscovery of the planet after man has destroyed himself and nature takes over the recovery of Earth. Kind of what the set of "The Road" looked like of Earth in its last days. The results are toxic and subtle jabs at mankind's constant drive to drain the Earth of it's resources and how nature always has to deal with the fallout in the end.