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“If nature is everything in the universe except us, are we its enemy or its consequence?”
Art is defiance
against entropy
(while admitting it may have a point)
Culture appears orderly from afar, like Saturn's rings, but up close reveals chaos: beliefs, ideas, and values constantly colliding and fragmenting. Occasionally, pieces drift together by gravity or luck, forming something new and whole. Inspiration emerges from noticing these brief moments of coherence, art is defiance of entropy, while admitting it may have a point
- Collin Douma
UF3D
Mixed Media
2025-
Like battlefield improvisation, these hybrid beings transform human waste into instruments of resistance and survival. Sculptures made of the very debris animals might scavenge in a post-collapse world. Using mixed media including acrylic putty, acrylic paint, metal and found objects.
Drawing From Life
Watercolors & Inks
1992 -
I first noticed it on the Toronto subway: adults sitting together in silence, nobody presenting or performing or preaching. This communal quiet is remarkably rare in life. I've found it in only two other places: Quaker meetings and life drawing workshops. I haven't returned to Quaker circles since moving to New York, but I've never stopped drawing. For me, it's communal meditation, not art. My Algonquin College professor Anne Morgan saw something in my watercolors and set me on a thirty-year path of silence in color and zen. Thank you, Anne.
A Cautionary Art Exhibition
by Collin Douma
United Fauna
Eco Surrealism
Watercolors & Inks 2011-2024
United Fauna envisions a world where animals have weaponized human technology for survival against environmental collapse. This ongoing series depicts creatures adapting our discarded machinery into tools of resistance. Whales armored with submarines, armadillos armored up as tanks, dragonflies outfitted with helicopter parts. Each piece imagines nature's retaliation against humanity's ecological destruction. Magical Surrealism for the Anthropocene era.
Null Flag
Vinyl, Metal, Cotton. 2025
In a time when every emblem is charged with meaning, Null Flag offers a radical alternative: a flag that demands no allegiance, dictates no belief, and defines no viewer. Instead, it becomes a window reflecting what each person brings to it.
For some, it may symbolize transparency and honesty. To others, it could stand for absence or rejection, a refusal to participate in the endless cycle of symbols that define and divide us. It might be seen as a placeholder for what could be, or the embodiment of pure potential.
The deepest truths are found not in what is declared, but in what is left unsaid.
Skyline traces the evolution the NYC silhouette across six generations, from the 1920s to the 2020s. Each form marks a moment when the city looked up and decided to go higher. It’s ambition cast in shadow. A hundred years of reaching, falling, and starting again. The shapes shift, but the urge stays the same: to leave a mark. To matter. To be seen from a distance, space and time.
Vinyl, Cotton, Metal 2025
Recent
Mixed Media, Onging
Subway Series
Phone sketches in transit. Mostly in New York