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On a technical level, Anna Park is cleverly mixing different styles, creating a unique visual language that puzzles the brain in an effort to decode the source of the image. Contextually, she is portraying familiar crowded scenes of parties and gatherings but adds an extra, comic element to her subjects. Humorous at first sight, Park’s work is also sinister in a way, as they feel like a black-and-white vision of a bad trip. At the same time, they feel like a critique of our society and crowd behaviour, since it’s putting the focus on anomalies that tend to occur in such settings. “Rather than depicting any specific moments, I want to present instances of uncertain chaos. It’s that fine line where every wild night out can come down to. I guess it’s kind of how I feel with a lot of things that happen; where a level of anxiety goes hand-in-hand with the unpredictable nature of life. Creating these crowd scenes brings you right into the mess of it all, where it’s out of your control but just immersed in the motion.”

Park’s work provoked me to think back to the characteristics of the crowd put forward by Canetti in Crowds and Power, in particular the ideas that ‘the crowd loves density’, ‘the crowd needs direction’ and that ‘the crowd always wants to grow’. I feel that the chaotic nature of Park’s work captures these features through the depiction of such erratic crowd scenes. As someone who likes to go to live music events, I regularly experience being in crowds and situations similar to the ones presented in these drawings which is an experience in itself, this again was described by Canetti. I think this is an interesting concept and something that I am now looking into so that I can portray being in a crowd in a different way where the focus is on the atmosphere and the experience of being in the situation.

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Rendered in colored pencil and graphite, the new works of David Jien expand his wild worlds in a new show at RICHARD HELLER GALLERY. See more on HiFructose.com.