Morgan Burke

This project is the culmination of a year’s work as my final thesis project at OCAD University. It’s a work of love for the odd, the fantastic, the cruel, and to my boyfriend, who I hope never changes. The work is inspired from medieval mystic illustration and stories, to modern fantasy and genre illustration, bringing the strangeness of history to a modern viewpoint.

The Tower is a series of digital illustrations that takes motifs and symbols from both history and fantasy, twisting mundane experiences of change and mourning into fantastical art. Each work explores different facets of historic Hermetic mysticism and early religion, questioning if the history of change is so different to our experiences in the present.

Each piece is a story of someone experiencing or caught up in the inevitable passage of time. Each is different, but the past is always right behind you.

Digital illustration, 2023-2024.