Are You Here To Help Us? (Digital)

Digital mixed media – Corel Painter 7 with photographic texture overlays and digital brushwork

This surreal digital painting explores the duality of emotional descent and societal neglect. Created in Corel Painter 7, the piece blends painterly strokes with photographic textures and digitally-rendered symbolism to create a fragmented, dreamlike world.

On the left, a haunting cityscape drips with toxic melancholy—smokestacks spew polluted grief while desperate messages like “SEND HELP” scream from cracked buildings. Voodoo Spidey dangles upside-down from a web of sanity, suspended in rain and sorrow. The composition flips gravity, suggesting emotional disorientation or collapse.

To the right, a glowing mirror or portal reflects another world (Catboy) hanging from a tree by his tail.

Stylistically, the piece is heavily symbolic and expressionist in nature, drawing inspiration from street art, surrealism, and digital collage. The use of negative space, dual color palettes (cold industry vs warm distortion), and layered narrative elements evoke a feeling of internal screaming inside a world that refuses to hear.