Ezerd Land

APD :: 01

Ink, acrylic on paper

Beginning in 2009, Ezerd Land launched a series of paintings called Adopt a Robot; these 4x4 inch canvases each featured an original robot painting accompanied by a unique name and character profile. After creating nearly 1,000 of these paintings over the next ten years, Ezerd established a dedicated following of "adopters" all over the world who brought these robots into their homes and lives. The series also resulted in the celebrated book called Adopt a Robot, featuring works from the first 500 in the series.

"My work explores oneness and the underlying concepts of interconnectivity despite any barriers that humans have constructed for themselves to get at the very heart of humanity and the core of human existence. Through my amorphous color fields and bold imagery, whether it be my playful Standard Ezerd Model Robot (SEM) or my more detailed "beingships," I embrace the oneness of everything that exists in the multiverse. "

– Ezerd Land

About the artist

Ezerd Land

The true origins of Ezerd Land are unknown. When pressured, Ezerd will answer, "I just woke up here." That being said, Ezerd has spent the majority of their time in various parts of New York State, and currently resides in the Bronx, where the machines are especially inspiring.

Ezerd’s art has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. They are known for their robots, spaceships, and what they have termed “beingships” - highly intricately drawn forms that may be described and interpreted in a multitude of ways. Ezerd Land’s work explores oneness and concepts of interconnectivity despite the programming and conditioning that has been implanted and the barriers that have been constructed for and which humans have constructed for themselves.

Ezerd plays with the ideas of macro versus micro vision and potential planes of perception and perspectives to which humans with their limited input systems may or may not be attuned. They use CMYK - cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black), as well as UV reactive and glow in the dark mediums to create their work. The images are drawn directly with no prevision or sketching in a meditative state tuned into the communicated wavelength and frequency. Ezerd aims through their work and through their being to get to the very heart of humanity and the core essence of existence.