Title: Portraits: Celebrations
Medium: Conte, graphite, digital collage
Dimensions: 15 in. W x 17.5 in. H
Date: 2016
Personal series reflecting on the celebration or vilification of certain political leaders. First image featured by SI-LA Illustration West 55 and published in The Matador Review.
Alt Text: Black and white portraits done in graphite and painted/spilled ink over military map of Libya. Three figures, one in front, Muammar Gaddafi, flanked by Tony Blair and George W. Bush, are realistically painted, but with intensely scratched lines and splattered ink. Blair and Bush, partially obscured, grin with violent cheer. Most of Gaddafi's face has been scratched away.
Alt Text: Black and white portraits done in graphite and painted/spilled ink over military map of Iraq. Three figures, one in front, Saddam Hussein, flanked by Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr., are realistically painted, but with intensely scratched lines and splattered ink. Reagan and Bush, partially obscured, grin with violent cheer. Most of Hussein's face has been scratched away.