Sunday, May 17, 2009

Ruined Man

An Arcimboldoesque (see link) Entropy drawing of a figure made up of ruined architectural elements:


Ruined Man, 2009, brush & ink on paper, 23.5" x 18".

I've kept the background empty. I might do another version with a sky or landscape or something...didn't seem necessary. I could even do a mini-series of figures like this. BTW, I don't always do sketches for these, but in this case I did. Here is the original thumbnail sketch:


That's done on the back of an envelope, as you can probably see. It was lying on my desk when I had the idea. The confirmation number refers to my electricity bill & has no deep significance.

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