Favorites from “Ignore Everybody”, 1998-2008

Posted: November 6, 2013 | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Filed under: #hughcards, 2009, favorites | Tags: #hughcards, art, marfa, New York | Comments Off

[These are some of my favorite business-card cartoons ever; they all appeared in my first book, “Ignore Everybody”, and were all drawn in that first decade between 1997-2008. These are the seminal ones; this is as good as my work ever got etc.]

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“Since 1997 I’ve drawn thousands of “Hughcards” [cartoons drawn on the backs of business card], just to give me something to do while sitting at the bar. Over time they have become increasingly religious and or meditative, over time they became ‘Cathedrals’."

(What is a "Cathedral”?)

A “Cathedral” is a series of x-hundred smaller, business-car “Hughcard” drawings (number per piece varies), forming a single piece under a single pane of glass.

“Cathedral” is a metaphor for a Holy Place, where the spirit goes to be amplified through contemplation.. The pieces are designed to generate a state of contemplation in the viewer.

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Thanks for visiting,

- Hugh MacLeod,

Raleigh, NC