ANTHONY GOICOLEA

“Amphibians” is a loosely knit narrative in which red hooded figures run through the forest and mysteriously multiply and regenerate. Young boys cloaked in red capes dart in and out of trees and brush calling to mind fables such as “Peter and the Wolf” or “Red Riding Hood”. It is unclear whether the boys are fleeing in panic or running towards something. In the end they run into the water and shed their clothing as if they are returning to their natural environment. The progression unfolds as a reverse process of evolutionary maturation in which an amphibious creature that typically spends the first half of its life in water and the second on land ultimately returns to its aquatic origins. In “Amphibians” the indistinguishable boys multiply and coalesce as a group in order to return to the water and swim freely in its wide-open murky spaces.