ONE ARTIST A DAY

From one day to the next, our normality shifted, changing drastically our relation to one another: suspicion, fear, anger. Isolation was not long to follow, and with it, anxiety. This period of uncertainty certainly abused us emotionally, and still is.

In order to keep my focus and motivation, I asked a simple question (through social media—somewhat out of character, but desperate time... :)) which anyone was invited to answer: “who is your favorite artist?”. On the principle that the more I work the less I worry, I would draw the collected answers, compulsively. During 13 weeks, every day, I would share artist portraits and, thus, connect with people, saving me from insanity.

100 portraits later (Frida Kahlo, Iggy Pop, Alice Munro, Björk, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Walken, Hank Williams III, Barbara, Barbara Kruger, Patti Smith, Ian MacKaye, Mike Muir, Andy Samberg, Bob Marley, Léo Ferré, Kate Bush, Niki de Saint Phalle, Erykah Badu, Ella Fitzgerald, Salvador Dali, Camille Claudel, Serge Gainsbourg, Emily Carr, David Lynch, Luis Sepúlveda, Thom Yorke, MCA, Georgia O’Keeffe, Etienne Daho, Amélie Nothomb, Leonard Cohen, Stanley Kubrick, Fela Kuti, Anthony Hopkins, Ezra Pound, Tricky, John Prine, Nina Simone, Albert Camus, Renaud, Tom Waits, Skin, Guy Bedos, Cindy Sherman, Grace Jones, Mike Patton, Pierre Richard, Geena Davis, Frank Zappa, Eddie Vedder, Ebony Patterson, Ray Charles, Joan Armatrading, PJ Harvey, Cœur de pirate, Big Mama Thornton, Ian Curtis, Tupac shakur, Grand corps malade, Ennio Morricone, Robert De Niro, Gord Downie, Iris Apfel, Boby Lapointe, John Candy, H.R., Ringo Starr, Dylan Carlson, Joe Strummer, Gil Scott Heron, David Bowie, Beau Dick, Mano Solo, Mr. Chi Pig, Edith Piaf, Gustavo Cerati, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Hayao Miyazaki, Gilles Deleuze, Coluche, Keith Flint, Sun Ra, Françoise Hardy, James Baldwin, Kim Deal, George Orwell, Siouxsie Sioux, Prince, Willie Colón, Manu Chao, James Hetfield, Sam Peckinpah, Alain Bashung, Robert Smith, Tracy Chapman, Sergio Leone, Banksy, Keith Haring, Merce Cunningham, and Freddie Mercury), I was publishing the all bunch of them in a book called WE WANT TO BREAK FREE.

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