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In exploring the emotional side of illustrations for children, Koharutie transgresses the codes of a genre to create a new one: the Emo-Pop Art, or, the art of giving shape to our anxieties through images normally used to express other emotions. In combining a fecund naiveté with fierce introspection, these pieces together create a reflection of the paradoxes of our generation; namely, if innocence is nothing but a dream, then perhaps suffering is the harbinger of our redemption?
If Roland Barthes is right to say that myth, today, is depoliticized speech, in other words, an ideological speech trying to appear natural, what can we say about the works of Gavin Benjamin but that they are of a mythical re-politicized speech?