Cave

Cave
Nathan Netterlund
Mixed Media Drawing

Based off of the Frank Miller Batman, which is the only Batman anymore, all things considered.
The continued motif of Bats flying everywhere during the recent Dark Knight Trilogy seemed to capture a certain madness, a certain insanity that reminded me of Goya. In particular the way Spanish Painter etched the famous print "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters."

The swirling bats and owls torment the drowsy, obscured protagonist, setting an uncomfortable background for our figure. In both cases, with Goya's dreamer and Miller's Batman the animals are placeholders for psychological angst and mental disease.