Brandl: "Podographs" Two Page Comic

Sequentiality, Abstraction and Representation

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I've been working on a series of sequences (so comic strips, actually) as planning for several new stone lithos which will be leporellos, yet also I am working toward "gallery comic" installations as well. I'm attempting to make them ride the line between apparent abstraction and loose representationalism. Hence, as my art school profs would have it, they are indeed abstract, at least abstracted, but not fully non-representational. My work of this nature is usually quite large and the surfaces are very haptic, so scale and surface enter into it as well: due to them, many people do not notice any representations at all. Reproduced small, as on this website, the impression is of course quite different, but I very intrigued by the idea of flirting with but defying full abstract AND full delineation.

Families

A couple of years ago, I did a series of monoprints, the first three of which are above. This type of clustered imagery was the starting point for my comic in the anthology. Apologies for the stitched-together scans!