""The world is increasingly terrifying, complex and unknowable, I think about this daily, but the things that are beautiful take on a quality and resonance in contrast," says Burton."
""A lot of what I'm interested in, and try to capture, is this haunted beauty.""
""endless summer nights in Sweden, the incredible scale of Chengdu and being heartbroken in Baltimore brownstones""
Burton Booz blends memories from Sweden, China and Brooklyn into spectral digital scenes characterized by haunted beauty and alien inhabitants. His work features extra-human characters with saturated orange skin and distorted forms within landscapes that mix cartoonish structures and photorealistic textures. Recurring motifs include interactions between animals and humans or alien intelligences, suggesting hidden histories and smoggy mystery. Childhood recollections, such as holding an octopus, inform anatomical fascination and nonverbal communication themes that persist as a "concrete aquarium" in his mind. The imagery evokes exploration and curiosity amid hostile, unholy atmospheres and psychological and physical distance.
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