Original artwork: Acrylic on wet strength paper Style: Surrealism with symbolic elements This piece blends everyday objects with symbolic exaggeration. The owl stands as the quiet observer in a distracted world, watching over a scene where familiar elements feel slightly out of place. The green sky and unusual scale choices shift the moment into something dreamlike, exploring themes of awareness, routine, and the signals we follow. My inspiration for this work comes from Stephen Bush. His surreal, narrative‑driven paintings influenced the way I combined realism with symbolic distortion, using unexpected colour and scale to transform ordinary scenes into imaginative, thought‑provoking spaces.