Anna Mond’s Fantastical Beings: 36 Paintings From A Universe That Exists Somewhere Beyond Our Own

Mond told Bored Panda that since that first encounter with the Beings, she has been painting them in acrylic, working quickly enough to capture their personalities, forms, and stories before ‘they change their mind’. For her, the process feels less like inventing characters and more like translating messages from somewhere else.

As Mond shared with us, sometimes the Beings appear fully formed; sometimes they emerge from ordinary humans; sometimes they take the form of pets. But there’s one thing they have in common: they all belong to the same expanding universe.

What makes Mond’s practice particularly intriguing is that she is still discovering the rules of this world herself. And perhaps that sense of movement is what makes the work feel so alive. Mond’s Beings have already traveled beyond the paintings, finding homes around the globe. As for where they might go next, she leaves the possibility suitably open: “Who knows, maybe one day they’ll end up on Mars. Stranger things have happened.”