Valin Mattheis

Valin Mattheis, “A Black Dog Who Made the World a Wilderness”

Valin Mattheis is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California. He draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including the symbolist artists, existentialism, Jungian psychology, and religions and mythologies the world over. The two-dimensional compositions and skeletal archetypes seem somewhat reminiscent of medieval art references to the Black Death. While his work does explore that ageless desire to instil faith into the mystery of death, not all of it is darkness and despair. He says that more than anything, he “attempts to convey a sense of wonder or reverence or curiosity.”

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