God's Key Chain, Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club, 2014
Good question! Originally thought it would take me a long time to answer but in actuality the answer came at me within minutes. If I could put all of life on the cover of one magazine, I'd put the 2014 digital drawing, "God's Key Chain" by The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club. A decade old this year, The Spooky Astronauts Drawing Club is a drawing collective based in the Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario area. Founded by a rag tag team of old friends, although lately more like a bickering old family of misfits who just can't seem to get along except in drawing, I stumbled into the delightful mess early on in its inception. Starting with a small handful of regular contributors, the group has spiralled out like a virus with over 60 participants. Astronauts take turns drawing in pencil and after some erasing and re-drawing and sometimes squabbling, a piece is declared finished and an inker and a digital colorist takes over before the final product is posted online.
God's Key Chain to me represents all of life with so many contributors I've lost track of, naturally it contains the viewpoints and chaotic mess of many and yet densely packed all into the palm of God. Dissecting every inch poses more questions than answers but an experience to be had nonetheless!
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