Distorted George, 1969 gesso and acrylic on paper 9x12
I've been making a lot of heavy stuff for a while, so I decided to lighten it up a bit. This drawing is from a still of George Carlin performing on, I believe, the Tonight Show in 1969. Shamefully, it's taken from his Wikipedia page, but fuck it, the original image made me laugh as he always has. As I made this one, I decided to pass the source image though a couple of imagined modes of distortion - first by the lined static common of the era of the original broadcast and then through a more digital distortion of the video viewing we enjoy today through youTube and other online video sites. Distortion on top of distortion. Something like that.