Blessed Be Thy Big Boy

“Blessed Be Thy Big Boy” is a vivid, layered digital collage presented as a stand-alone symbolic portrait, channeling American consumer folklore through a lens of surreal reverence and playful dread. Built from manipulated photographs, vintage pop culture fragments, and uncanny mascot imagery, the piece reimagines the iconic “Big Boy” figure as a modern shrine to indulgence and absurdity.

This work is explicitly a tribute to David Lynch, whose mythic storytelling and surreal Americana inspired its eerie, familiar-yet-otherworldly atmosphere. Blessed Be Thy Big Boy operates like a roadside altar to cultural excess — equal parts roadside diner, roadside nightmare, and innocent childhood memory gone slightly rotten.