Study #2

This is the second study for the Ignis Sacer title piece. This drawing expands on the image at the center of the original piece, the part that looks like a band logo and says "Ignis Sacer", Latin for "holy fire", in a kind of metal font. The logo is an ambigram, that is, it can be read the exact same when it is flipped upside down. The entire drawing is an ambigram, too.

There's also a snippet of Durer's St. Anthony, and a lot of Current 93 lyrics in the background, which largely summarize the ineffectiveness of prayer in curing off plague.

The best part, I feel, is the drawing of my naked self fighting a serpent representing worldly evil. That part is based on a book cover made by Eric Gill. Gill is a controversial, but undeniably talented engraver/printer/typographer (ugh) whose work I discovered at a Jesuit museum in Chicago.

CIGARS

This a drawing I have made, whose inspiration should be obvious to those of you who grew up with cool public libraries. It's based on The Cigars of the Pharaoh, which is great because it introduces Thomson and Thompson and has way more geographical/cultural accuracy than the preceding strips. Also, Egypt.

Study #1

This is a study, or companion piece for the Ignis Sacer drawing. There will probably be about two of these studies for each of the four larger pieces. They will be much simpler, and will have maybe one or two images from the larger drawings in them, but in greater detail and clarity. The idea behind this is to give a bit more context to the individual parts of the larger collages.

This piece shows part of Insect Warfare's World Extermination LP, especially the word "insect", which is used to make "ignis" in the larger title piece. There are some other details in this drawing, because I feel that these smaller pieces should stand on their own and not simply be xeroxes of the things I look at to make my drawings.

Mana Leak

Patrick Kyle asked me to be in a zine he did called Mana Leak. The zine features work by myself, Dan Rocca, Rowan Tedge, Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. And it's risographed. I have a bunch of copies, they should be for sale at The Beguiling and Suspect Video.

http://www.mother-books.com/
http://www.patrickkyle.com/