Monsters in the forest
“Portrait of a Bunny” by Susan J. Silvester, oil on canvas.
A child appears alone, enveloped in a bunny suit in a wintry, bare-branched forest, the long, erect ears on her hood mimicking that of the stuffed rabbit in her clutch—or the live one nearby on the forest floor. The paintings and digital drawings of Susan J. Silvester’s (a local artist, graphic designer and lecturer at the Art Institute of California—Sacramento) lagomorph-clad kids capture a sense of mystery and innocence and are a bit evocative of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The wilderness can be a scary place, but in Silvester’s pieces, the young human masquerading as another animal might be the closest thing to a monster in the forest.
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