graphite, putty eraser & watercolour/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' 16/06/08
This drawing is a small section transcribed from a larger photographic original that formed the 'Eyewitness' centrespread in that day's (broadsheet format) 'Guardian'. The main appeal is that the figures, the faces, are arranged, contained, within a perfect grid format (our Modernist friend), one to a cell, formed by the metal safety barriers of the architectural structure of a football stadium (the photo was in fact taken at a Euro 2008 match). The range of expressions on the individuals' faces - often at odds with the colourful, oft-extravagant & mostly frivolous headgear they sport in support of their teams-nations - is, of course, a fascinating, human aspect of the image, & a challenge to realise in the context of the transcription of, in effect, a multiple portrait.
The intention is that the remainder of the original photograph will be 'processed' in similar manner, the separate, discrete sketches then going to form a much larger, multi-panelled piece: a project within 'The Project' as each of the individual drawings are to the whole.
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