“If nature is everything in the universe except us, are we its enemy or its consequence?”

Statement

Art is how to be defiant against entropy, while admitting it has a point, creating meaning that lasts just long enough to matter.

Culture appears orderly from afar, like Saturn's rings, but up close reveals chaos: beliefs, ideas, and values constantly colliding and fragmenting. Occasionally, pieces drift together by gravity or luck, forming something new and whole. Creativity emerges from noticing these brief moments of coherence. - Collin Douma

UF3D

Mixed Media

2025-

Like battlefield improvisation, these hybrid beings transform human waste into instruments of resistance and survival. Sculptures made of the very debris animals might scavenge in a post-collapse world. Using mixed media including acrylic putty, acrylic paint, metal and found objects.

Drawing
From Life

Watercolors & Inks

1992-

I first noticed it on the Toronto subway: adults sitting together in silence, nobody presenting or performing or preaching. This communal quiet is remarkably rare. I've found it in only two other places: Quaker meetings and life drawing workshops. I haven't returned to Quaker circles since moving to New York, but I've never stopped drawing. For me, it's communal meditation, not art. My Algonquin College professor Anne Morgan saw something in my watercolors and set me on a thirty-year path of color and zen. Thank you, Anne.

A Cautionary Art Exhibition
by Collin Douma

United Fauna

Magical Surrealism for the Anthropocene era

Watercolors & Inks 2011-2024

United Fauna envisions a world where animals have weaponized human technology for survival against environmental collapse. This ongoing series depicts creatures adapting our discarded machinery into tools of resistance. Whales armored with submarines, armadillos armored up as tanks, dragonflies outfitted with helicopter parts. Each piece imagines nature's retaliation against humanity's ecological destruction. Magical Surrealism for the Anthropocene era.

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Skyline

Acrylic, Wood 2024

Skyline traces the evolution of that silhouette across six generations, from the 1920s to the 2020s. Each form marks a moment when the city looked up and decided to go higher. This is more than architecture. It’s ambition cast in shadow. A hundred years of reaching, falling, and starting again. The shapes shift, but the urge stays the same: to leave a mark. To matter. To be seen from a distance, space and time.

"Culture appears orderly from afar, but up close, it's like Saturn's rings; complete entropic chaos"
-Collin Douma

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