Alexis Mann writes that paper “…is friendly to hold­ing the kind of sto­ries I tell in my paint­ings”. She enjoys how paper is portable, and pieces can be snipped and rearranged — how it is both frag­ile and resilient.

This dual­ity that is present in paper is also present in the work of Alexis. Her work revolves around the dri­ving forces of love and water, and how those things bind all crea­tures. Rela­tion­ships between the land and sea, the crea­tures of both as well as humans are all inter­twined and through this, we dis­cover that all of these things aren’t so dif­fer­ent. That, at the most basic level, we are all apart of the same world and exist together.

With this in mind, Alexis cre­ates very con­tem­po­rary draw­ings despite her con­cept — she’s got tat­tooed and styl­ishly dressed peo­ple. I love the fusion of these two things. Love and rela­tion­ships are some­thing that are never out of vogue, so the work has a strong foundation.

All images via her web­site.