Three Scenes

“Three Scenes: What a Crow Remembers” is a triptych of folk art-inspired paintings. Each image is a stand-alone scene each with its own contribution to the narrative, taking inspiration from comic strips and story books. Each painting combines to form a larger narrative where crows are the central motif and the thread that ties the story together. In each painting, the crow assumes a different role: the perpetrator, the voyeur, and the guide. Crows are often seen as symbols of intelligence, memory, and grief—traits that align with the complexities of the human experience. They are creatures capable of deep emotion yet frequently dismissed as mere vermin. By using animal imagery to understand a human experience, it recontextualizes feelings and emotions and brings them down to its simplest primal form.

Elliot Welsh

Elliot Welsh is a fine artist from California whose work centers around storytelling in both a sequential and nonsequential manner through children’s books, comics, paintings, and illustrations.

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