08/18/2023
Life Drawing: Fig. 2 (Life is Simple) // digital illustration, 11”x14”, 2023
Life Drawing classes were required in art school. I really didn’t love them, it was 90-120 minutes of intense observation and failed attempts at capturing the n**e model just perfectly so. But every now and then you’d create that perfect stroke, one that captured the ironic energy of inertia, the life of someone sitting so still.
The name of this series is “Life Drawings” (also referred to as figure drawings).
These drawings are observational drawings from live n**e models. I have always said that the men of dating apps are my muses, and this series highlights that truth.
Men who hold such bombastic (mis)beliefs about conception, reproduction, body autonomy and reproductive freedom are at odds with reality. But that doesn’t make them any less dangerous. Their ignorance about consent, sexual intimacy and the health and wellbeing of women’s bodies is violence. I wish this life drawing illustrated a different truth. But I draw what I see.
Scroll to learn more about Matt, whose contempt for women is palpable.
