Charcoal

A charcoal collage, if you will -- every piece of this image was taken from different pictures that I (and in one case, a friend) had taken. With the exception of the figure -- who is my buddy Forstree -- the pictures were all taken in or around the downtown Detroit area. The instructor was big into "meanings" behind the art, so I concocted some story about how religion traps you (as the figure in the image is surrounded by railings and barricades and the like) -- to reinforce this, I drew a Chi Rho (also known as "that funny symbol that looks like 'PX'") on the cup Forstree is holding (which, rest assured, was not in the original). Surprisingly, the instructor loved it.