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Introduction to the artwork: "The Plush Messiah Rises"
At the heart of an inverted iconography, The Plush Messiah Rises emerges as a haunting and melancholic vision of Easter—where resurrection is not a symbol of hope, but a cyclical curse. The central figure is a tattered, forgotten Easter bunny plush: a childhood relic and vessel of lost innocence, clutching a cracked egg—once a token of rebirth, now a fragile shell of emptiness.
Blending the visceral rawness of Simon Bisley with the nihilistic surrealism of Zdzisław Beksiński, the illustration reframes resurrection as a return in corrupted form—fabric flesh reanimated by the wrong kind of force, almost blasphemous in nature. Surrounding it, an apocalyptic landscape of ash and rotten pigment whispers that even springtime can host a nightmare.
In this mute Easter, where the colors are those of decay rather than celebration, the bunny is crucified upon memory—tethered to childhood and divine madness. The artwork gazes back at the viewer with one eerie question: What happens when the one who rises isn’t a savior, but a poorly stitched fetish?