Plant-Based Monster Trucks is the latest drawing collaboration between Swiss illustrators and artists Lina Müller and Luca Schenardi and is inspired by a 2023 stay in an early 1900s bungalow in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
It felt like a Lynchian dream where mesmerising scenes could shift abruptly into unsettling ones. The artists were drawn to the contrast between light and shadow – on multiple levels. A peaceful stroll down a quiet street lined with blooming flowers suddenly turns into a frantic escape from a bloodhound trying to tear through a fence to get to them. A sinister stairway leading down from the sunlit Sunset Boulevard awakens primal fears. A black hole in the last few meters of a dark sidewalk – just before reaching a legendary diner-turned-music-club – seems like it could swallow you whole. Plant-based pizzas kill your appetite. And monster trucks are real.
