Dan Fionte

Pen & Ink with brushed charcoal 8"x10" on 11"x14" bristol board. October 2008 (Click original link below image for full size)

This illustration and the following one are based on photographs taken at Fort Sewall in Marblehead Massachusetts. I thought the compositions were interesting, and the voyeurism involved in making this kind of art has always intrigued me. People tend to watch others, their gestures, and the setting around them, if we cannot hear what they are saying we will often make up a situation for them to exist within, yet the very act of doing so is autobiographical- it says more about ourselves than it does the people we're observing in many cases. I have also always wanted to use the word "yonder". It is a word my grandmother (my "nana b") used to use and it always was interesting to me, it ultimately became the root of an inside joke I shared with a close friend of mine.