A friend of mine, Dave, occasionally tasks me with illustrating to a musical accompaniment of his choosing. The idea is simple enough: watch the music video and listen to the track, finding an angle therein with which I may pursue to some artistic end.
Dave is often the victim of my inkish exploits in the late hours of the evening, so he is well accustomed to my drawing style(or lack thereof,) and often finds my resistance to leave my illustrative comfort zones disagreeable. So I suppose that is how our 'collaboration,' such as it is, came into being.
Alas, I digress. This image was drawn with the visual and musical accompaniment of Radiohead's "There, There" a song which brought to mind Odin's 'Horse of the Hanged' vigil, whereby Odin bound himself to the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine nights. It was an act which was often emulated by Norsemen as they paid tribute to the all-father and the line "Just cause you feel it, doesn't mean its there" seemed to epitomise that for me. The idea of enduring great suffering or pain for a being or God which is not tangible and impossible to validate outwith the concept of belief.
Love this picture, the chains and the grass are really well handeled,like the whites of the eyes...grim. :-)
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