4. Girl From Another Planet

There's a slightly unsettling, otherworldly feel to this picture that's hard to define. We guess that's the function of all good art; it asks questions of you that you aren't always able to answer. Paul Morgan's drawing captures a blue girl seeming to almost float through a field of mushrooms, with blue grass, under an alien sky.

Is there an allegory here about forbidden fruit? Has she come to take the mushrooms away? Should we be reading into the blue theme as having an undercurrent about depression and anxiety? The pattern on her dress seems to reflect the pattern on the mushrooms, albeit more faintly. Perhaps this is actually about women finding themselves in the world or feeling alien in a world run by men. Either way, it's challenging to look at, and deceptively complex in its execution.

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