If you’re like me, you’ve likely spent a great deal of time with your favourite pop culture characters, their presence enriching everything from lazy childhood Saturday mornings spent spread out on the couch watching cartoons to nostalgic adult nights spent wondering where your youth went … wait, is that just me?
Anyway, the point is that we’ve spent a lot of time with the likes of Big Bird, Homer Simpson, E.T. and Kermit the Frog and we’d like to think we know them pretty well.
But as artist Alex Solis, asks us in his fantastically imaginative artwork featuring these icons and their true identities, how well do we know them and is our whole life a great big stinking lie?
OK, fine he doesn’t ask that last question and his art featuring characters-within-characters, which is currently the subject of a Kickstarter you should support, are actually asking us why these characters feel so familiar? Could it be, he asks, that “our minds [are] piecing together past experiences to create something that feels unique and new.”
Entirely possible, as our adult and childhood brains struggle to connect the characters we knew back then with the ones we know now? Are they all the same? Connected in some mysterious way? It’s fun to find out and you can keep the journey and the wondering going as Alex releases new images via Instagram.
(Source: Geek and Sundry; all images (c) Alex Solis)
