The Crowd

A book of suggestive, mask-like images, which can be thought of as a book of drawings only, but its goal is something more experimental. 


These images are built around an ambiguous theme which the reader can choose to embrace, providing a complex landscape of ideas. 


Included are 23 images with an introductory video depicting the creation, in sped-up fashion, of one of the images.

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From the Foreword:

Our transitional age inspired this series of images. 

With a daily overload of amazing and disturbing news from the town square percolating in my subconscious, these flickering images emerged from my regular practice of drawing and painting. They are images of suggestion and feeling rather than illustrations.

At one juncture I thought of these body-less visages as Beings Before Time; masked energy existing before the Big Bang. (It is thought Time was itself born at the moment of this astonishing cosmic paroxysm.) 

In this metaphor, spirits inhabiting a timeless realm awaited their moment, entering our universe as sprites which now inhabit our minds, each spirit with its own predispositions; its own grandeur and deviltry. …