Making Work Visible

This painting is inspired heavily by the philosophical as well as the aesthetic aspects of the 1927 silent film Metropolis. This is a stylized composition on 11″ x 17″ Bristol board. The materials used here are gauche and illustration markers.

The film that inspired the painting portrays life in Metropolis, a bustling futuristic city of sixty million people that is divided into two economic groups; the wealthy industrialists who rule a vast majority of the city from high-rise tower complexes, and the underground-dwelling lower class who constantly labor on the machines that power the city.