Sohrab Crews – Buck Guns Sham Suns

In 2001 I began the ongoing series of Extra Life monochrome drawings. These partly planned, partly improvised compositions aim to find a certain originality and invention in combining drawing and words. Through the organic process of drawing I sequenced capitalised four letter words into columns each containing sixteen words, built around contemporary themes. These numerous themes, or big ideas include: apocalypse, art, autobiography, consumption, death, hype, and war. This resilient primeval rhinoceros, is like us, overloaded by content, consumed and infected by the absurdities normalised by our fractured age of speed and greed.