Over Crowding

Part of a series of three pictures that I created on the feelings created by living in a city. When I first moved to a city in 1995 I was interested at how different the pace and quality of life were to what I was used to. These images show my thoughts on a few issues city life raises.

The most noticeable thing about city life, over crowding. The shear number of people that live side by side. It can be suffocating and impersonal.

A comic detail, the cross in the eye is used in cartoon as a concussed state. The look that is given to characters that have been hit on the head or disorientated.

 

The socket on the other side is cracked and broken as though the face is being crushed from either side. The character is constrained to the canvas, squashed from all sides.