by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Context
Anima A looming, goddess-like figure emerges from a wallpapered dreamscape — floral, yet funereal. Rendered in deep blacks and fiery oranges, she echoes Kali: fierce, unflinching, and transformative. This is anima not as muse, but as shadow — the eternal feminine in...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Context
Reconciliation Here, the two figures patterned with floral motifs share a moment of recognition. Their patterns interweave across the surface, and their red eyes hint at the intensity of this process; the calm gesture, its eventual peace. The piece is derived from the...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Context
Ouroboros Inspired by a 16th-century alchemical emblem and reimagined through digital ornamentation, Chasing Tails explores the cyclical, chaotic pursuit of inner coherence. A wolf, jaguar, and hybrid beast coil endlessly around a central eye—symbol of awareness that...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Context
Nigredo II: Two Boulders In alchemy, nigredo is the stage of decomposition—a psychological descent marked by sorrow, stagnation, and disintegration of identity. This piece holds that moment in stone: two massive boulders suspended in a shadowed valley, as if time...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Context
Nigredo I: Two Peaks in the Lake The shadowed forms of twin mountains mirror themselves in still water, dissolving into the same blackness. This is not a place on any map but a terrain of despair rendered in geological form. Nigredo, in Jungian terms, is a process...
by Will Cottrell | Jun 25, 2025 | Bamboo Models, Context
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow This piece evokes the melancholic beauty of dissolution. A collapsing architectural form—its bamboo slats slumped and peeling—suggests a structure no longer able to hold itself together. One flank appears to unravel into wave-like...
