Aquired Collective Image

Catherine did a rather nifty bit of artwork for online group, Aquired Collective ("Formation of a brand new collective. Based predominantly on the scavenging of found object... collaboration... communication... and fundamentally the creation of publications showcasing contemporary illustrators and artists in new mediums. Online plus paper based archive of results. ")

So I thought I would have a go to and this is the image that has been swimming around in my brain for the last couple of weeks

Found photographs, pen and ink drawing, scanned and put together in Photoshop

Aquired Collective had sent me the photograph of the old man to do whatever I wanted with. I thought he looked very stoical and dignified, but also lonely. I kept getting a very strong image of him sitting in a ruined house. Then I began to think about all the people, mostly women probably, who cooked and cleaned and shopped for him, all the busyness that went into the creation of this patriarchal image.

So there it is.

(BTW I think that he should perhaps have been slightly smaller, more lost in the building and perhaps I should have made the linking arrows bolder. Ho hum)