The Feral Assembly

Visual Description: This painting is densely packed with collaged imagery: children in various poses and time periods, a wolf's face in the lower left, scattered objects (a red tricycle, wooden crates, furniture), and a heavily textured, layered background of purples, greens, and earth tones. The composition feels like a junkyard, a memory dump, a site of abandoned childhood. The wolf is the wildness, the children are innocence or memory, and the scattered objects are the detritus of growing up. This is childhood as archaeology—fragments, ruins, things left behind. Materials & Techniques: Multiple photographic collage elements (children, wolf, objects) Heavy texture medium Acrylic paint (purples, greens, browns, pinks) Layered, chaotic composition Found imagery from different eras Interpretation: This piece is about the wildness of childhood, the danger, the freedom, and the things we leave behind. The wolf represents instinct, the untamed self, while the children are the selves we were before domestication. The wreckage is what remains after growing up—broken toys, forgotten moments, the wild places we used to live. Poetry: "The wolf watches the children play in the ruins of innocence— tricycles rusting, crates stacked high, the feral self still howling beneath."