Utopia

In 1989 I created this image of a post-modern society with pen and ink using black and red ink only. I had recently graduated from high school where I had been taking my second year of Art, and third year of drafting.

I remember being intrigued with the ability to create three colors with only two, by allowing the space and arrangement of shapes to have as much importance as the color assigned shapes. This property of color, shape and space would continue to show up in several of my works, even up to today.

This image later inspired me to create new varieties , larger, of the same image in pen and ink(2nd Utopia) and oils. I am in the planning stages of the third variation of this image. My plan is to have image roughly 12 feet by 4 feet. I also will plan on future versions of this image.

Mitch