BIG BROTHER – Surreal Prison Art & Social Commentary

Medium: Acrylic on PRISON Fire Blanket
Size:33x33 Inches
Year:2013
Availability: AVAILABLE

"Big Brother" is a haunting and surreal acrylic painting on an authentic prison fire blanket, marked with an official HMP prison tag, reinforcing its origins. Inspired by Lady Gaga, the central female figure gazes outward with an almost theatrical intensity, draped in revealing yet unsettling attire. She sits beside a skeletal companion, adorned with a top hat and handcuff, evoking themes of mortality, control, and entrapment.

In the background, an orangutan stares through a framed window, its watchful eyes a direct reference to Orwellian surveillance—the idea that Big Brother is always watching. This looming presence serves as a metaphor for institutional control, societal judgment, and the psychological weight of incarceration.

This piece is an early work from my time in prison, capturing the tension between freedom and confinement, celebrity and scrutiny, life and decay. The fusion of pop culture, dystopian themes, and raw prison experience makes "Big Brother" a compelling statement for collectors of outsider art, political commentary pieces, and contemporary surrealism and tagged with a prison clothing tag.

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