The series of two paintings takes up a motif of medieval Christian sacred architecture, a human head, usually male, around which plant branches entwine, originating in its open mouth. A hybrid of human and plant emerges. This motif is often found in many different forms carved in stone or wood on medieval churches and may well evoke memories of a pagan forest god who represents a symbiosis of man and nature.
Inspired by Louis Weinberger's series of skeletal Green Men, what comes out of the mouths of the two Green Men today is not good for nature. After all, they are man-made things, cutlets made of plastic bags and packaging and aluminium foil, which rather promise disaster and death for nature. What was once a relationship that could be idealised has now given way to an attitude of de-naturalisation, that no longer wants to be idealised and manifests itself in merciless overexploitation and overuse.