Ethan Murrow is an American artist active in film, performance, photography and drawing. I love his large-scale graphite drawings, filled with impossible figures, in search of absurd adventures.
Ethan Murrow: "Despite a focus on working with others, the characters in recent narratives have been consistently averse to criticism and assistance. These figures, mostly male, are doomed to failure and prone to dysfunction. “Zero Sum Pilot,” for example, follows one man’s rigorous and suspect training for unknown aerial goals. He obtains sustained movement through the air, at cost. These are cautionary tales, cynical nods to the pitfalls of egotism and obsessive drive. Since I often play the central character in these dramas I intentionally implicate myself in the conflagration that the protagonists create around themselves. I mean to do this with a nod to Charlie Chaplain, who understood that idiocy is inevitable and our own role in it is assured."
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