Alva Review-Courier -

Ben Zwalich's collage-based painting of a man in a sarcophagus (top left) starts the series of paintings (bottom). The painting harks back to the work that first inspired Zawalich to be an artist: a second-century Egyptian mummy (middle left). At right is the last painting in the series, that depicts a man throwing handfuls of tiny humans into his mouth, while other tiny humans fall into a sea of flames, from which other hands reach up. At center is a detail from one of the paintings, showing one of the many locusts that appear in the series, apparently climbing up a plant.