PAUL SELING

Drawing fast to avoid “Reason”

This was an experimental 1,5 hours of drawing in ad-lib mode. That means drawing without any idea what I was doing. But I felt like proving myself with caricature aiming to a certain class of persons that are used to control key-positions of the post-comunist system.

My idea was that they belong to a cast of people that are in one way or another corrupt by their functioning in/within the social/political web. This also allows them to become key-figures in local communities, and this comes with a certain understanding or perception of their own value. This meaning of course that they feel like dellivering to a certain expectation when it comes to their public image/persona.

Tainted personalities, tainted design

We are therefore still “lucky” to witness their anachronic “essays” on themes like good taste, fashion, style ( from hair to clothing ), always sources of amusement and gossip with the connaisseurs. I tried to capture here, with every detail, all of these “not-really-there” attempts to look good, cool, trendy and be publicly accepted.