Art Film Report #3: Political Campaign Drawings

Early in the “To the Diggers” film we will see flashes of political campaigns. So, I have been collecting and studying photos of politicians pressing flesh in the crowds and waving from motorcades.

The poetic words underlying this section are as follows: 



 

“We regard as wisdom
Bright reflections, pixels,
Bites of sound repeated;
Arranging body and face
Choreographed in a timely place,
Makes powerful and great.”

The drawings I've made from these studies will form a fast cutting montage. The images you see here are details from the larger,

colored pencil drawings which will enjoy a second life exhibited along side the completed film.

Other work on the film has included enlarging images to emphasize individual pixels. I have made 17 of these “swatches” and will use them as colorful flashes over other images.

The next set of drawings will be from studies of TV News Pundits, news sets and TV equipment.