Snake Jagger refers to his artistic style as Whimsical Surrealism. He is an artist who, while dedicated to the subtle exposition of his personal philosophy, doesn't take himself too seriously and is comfortable working with his tongue planted firmly in cheek. Jagger's work is clearly surrealist in demeanor, but there is no hint of the Daliesque allegory here. Rather, Jagger's work seems to draw a significant part of its compositional inspiration from Rene Magritte.
Jagger, like Magritte, is able to juxtapose the most mundane of objects in a manner that convinces us to accept the entire image, regardless of its disparities, as a wholly realistic depiction. And so it is with Jagger's work; once the mind's eye has recorded the presence and positioning of these incongruous objects, it then becomes almost impossible to imagine the painting existing without them.
Within this hyper-real world, massive vine-ripened tomatoes lounge on sunny Mediterranean patios, huge Saguaro cacti double as street lamps, dripping water faucets thrust up out of velveteen desert sand dunes, and doors in the canvas literally open into other realities. His goal is to reshape and reinvent the world, and he is inviting us all along with him on a journey that promises both discovery and fulfillment.
The message embedded at the core of each of his paintings is this: We only have one world and we cannot allow ourselves to squander its resources. Working together, we can perfect this world's beauty and potential.
We can leave it a better place for all generations yet to come.