Description of drawings

These comic-like, ink drawings of black men cavort on the page.The background of wood grain patterned paper provides a simple, yet active ground and is overlayed by a fly-blown ink dot pattern that further activates the background. Occasionally the figures will interact with the side of the page as if it was a wall. They are contained.The black men stand on the bottom edge as if it was an Egyptian register. The first four idealized drawings of seventies studs resemble earlier incarnations of my Black Panther Series, while the last four represent how I imagine panthers have aged with time. The panthers respond to bubble-like selections from my collection of found images (snapshots, advertisements, educational texts, novel covers, brochures, and other ephemera) of social interactions. Many show patterns of representation, while others are possible abberations. They often represent different decades. They are my attempt to prompt the viewer to see as I see.