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New Series

10/11/2012

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Sometimes you have to go backwards to move ahead, so I went back to some earlier sketches to use as a basis for my next series. The decay of the body and its role as a metaphor for contemporary life continues to intrigue me and I can't seem to let it go. My goal with this series of work is to focus on stark contrasts and limit myself to a monochromatic palette. The dramatic quality of black and white allows so much freedom in terms of expression.

I am concentrating on fragments of the body, small muscle groups, to illustrate a sense of anomie in modern society. Divorced from a wider picture, existing in a bubble on unreality, the real morphs into

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Kody link
2/8/2021 05:09:15 am

Greaat reading

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