The use of detailed pen work with some aspects of these images but not with others (such as the blank clothing) gives this set a ghostly feel, and the plain expressions depicted make these subjects seem almost zombie-like creatures lacking human empathy.
Montserrat's most recent set of images (entitled Emptyland) use ribbon-like effects to 'void' each animal, giving them a hollow effect, relating to the ideas of animals lacking human emotions.
"I conclude therefore that in that empty space we were all immortal, a difficult feeling to assimilate. I devoted myself to outline and analyse my surroundings, and with this I developed Empty Animals. I learned to live with them, no worries, no need to feed. And I missed pondering the existence of a God, and the idea of a Darwinian evolutionary process in parallel, or just enjoy the freedom of an empty reality. Arriving in Barcelona I decided to lock them in a drawer and not say anything about this to anyone, and now, two years later, after trying many times to go back there, I have come to the following conclusion: if I, who have already been can not return, no one can go." (source)
