He has done so many things. His art seems to create another world. It takes the viewer out of reality and into whichever fantasy or nightmarish world he is creating. The viewer is immediately struck by his use of "collage" or cut and pasting look in some of his images and his figures that are wholly imagined.
I want to talk about the film Mirror Mask. McKean has done many works and Mirror Mask was the first feature length film that he designed and directed. Basic plot is a young girl working in the family circus as wants to leave to join the real world. Soon after a fight with her mother, her mother gets ill and she feels responsible. This is where things get interesting. She gets taken to The City of Light, which is being consumed by shadows. She is trying to find the fabled mirror mask to get back home and save the kingdom (she also has a doppelganger who was the princess of the Land of Shadow - she is currently in her place in the real world acting radically different than she would). There's a lot more to it including the fact that all her drawings actually created this world and they are the portals into it (which the princess from the Land of Shadow is trying to destroy).
You really need to watch the film to understand, but his construction of the other world puts the viewer in another place and actually creeps them out, which I feel is the intended effect.
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