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GANGLAND KILLER:

THIS WAS A FINAL PIECE FOR AN ART PROJECT CONCERNING A LIFE-SIZE SELF PORTRAIT. WE WERE GIVEN THE ALLOWANCE OF ANY SETTING WE WANTED AND SO, I CHOSE A BACKSTREET ALLEY WAY SETTING IN GANGLAND COUNTRY.

THE FIGURE CLOSEST IS ME, IN GANG BOSS DRESS, WHILE MY 'HANDYMEN' SORT OUT A BUTCHER WHO HASN'T PAID HIS DUES AND HAS BEEN CORNERED BY US. AFTER INITIALLY BEATING HIM INTO SUBMISSION, I COME IN TO FINISH THE JOB.

DRAWN IN CHARCOAL AND CHALK, I WAS STILL FINDING MY FEET WITH THIS GRAPHICAL STYLE I HAD ACHIEVED AND WAS NOW USING IT ON FIGURES. THE THREE MEN IN THE BACKGROUND ARE BASICALLY FACELESS EXCEPT THE MOST BASIC OF FACIAL FEATURES AS THESE ARE JUST ANOTHER THREE FACES IN THE BACKGROUND SHADOWS OF SOCIETY, UNNOTICED BY OTHERS AND REMAINING IN THE BACK BURNERS OF THE CITY.

MY STYLISED FIGURE IS SLIGHTLY OUT OF PROPORTIONS DUE TO HIS OWN SENSE OF PLEASURE AT THIS GRIM INCIDENT AND HIS PRIDE IS BURSTING OUT OF HIS BODY CAUSING HIS FIGURE TO BECOME SLIGHTLY DISTORRTED AT POINTS.