Growing up in a Christian household in Texas, artist Trenton Doyle Hancock was immersed in the myths and narratives that he found while reading The Bible. Couple these narratives with his love of comic books, toys and the Masters of the Universe series and one is able to see the pool of imagery and ideologies that helped shape Hancock's own mythical world.
"If you look at the grouping of the stories and belief systems that I learned from growing up, I wanted to take them apply them to my own art project based around a series of myths and symbols."
Through his prints, drawings, painting, collages and even ballet, Hancock has created an ongoing narrative involving a group of mythical creatures that live and die in the Tolkienesque underworld that he created. Within his universe, there are Vegans - small ant-like creatures that live in the underworld and militantly hate meat. There are Mounds - hairy mountainous creatures that are rooted in the Earth. There's a handful of supporting character's like ...
