Downfall of a Nation

Pen, pencil and acrylic paint on paper

Following on from sitting still and drawing, a take on portraying a nation's institutions as cog wheels in a big machine. Choose the nation, many currently and in the past have horded wealth into a small elite, to the detriment of the rest of the mechanism.

As I forget the complexity of cog wheels, the initial drawing was vague: I would like a circle here and there.... But I am happy that my eyeballing of angles hasn't got that rusty., Every cog evolves naturally in its place and fills its allocated space, how it fits in with another has to alter as the adjacent one grows. Definitely not a clock-maker's work, the end/complete design is not known at the beginning, I quite like it as an analogy.

Pencil and acrylic on paper