On Monday, I completed “Chaos’ Proclamation”. I feel pretty good about it. In the last hour of my time working on it, I felt this drive compelling me to make the piece as good as it could be. And while I am often motivated to do so for every piece, in this hour it felt visceral. I needed to make every square centimeter as good as it can be, and I feel that it caused me to make a solid piece of art.

Since then, I have been brainstorming what other statements within my topic I can center my next piece around. I thought of continuing the story of Chaos, and introducing other Greek gods in order to expand the themes in my piece. Right now, I plan to include a total of six prominent characters in this composition: Chaos, Thanatos, Deimos, Phobos, Asclepius, and a normal human. While doing preliminary sketching for this piece, I struggle orchestrating this many figures. The last time I made a piece with more than two figures was a piece called “Baba Akinyelure” in my modernist series of African folklore. What made composing that piece different was that each there were more people but each person was less prominent, so I can group them into moving masses of figures. Here, however, since each character is equally important and thus must be equally large on the paper, I’m faced with a new task of creating rhythm and unity between them, while also dealing with their different local values.