American Gothic is a painting created by American artist Grant Wood in 1930, and here, the two people in black and white with a pitchfork are recreating that painting. However, the man and woman are reversed, and their faces are different.
Above, on the left, there’s an image of a woman whose hair transforms into the roots of a tree. I can’t read the text, but Mother Earth, or Gaia, is a well-known archetype.
Many people have tried to add their own mark or image to the piece. But it’s the combined power of everything together that makes the composition beautiful, including the wall itself, which absolutely adds to the whole. I love the randomness of it all—that’s what turns a composition into Living Art.