I remember watching the late night news. Whatever year it was, I remember the “news flash”, that the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had died from a heroin overdose. I was a kid, but I was all in with the graffiti at the time, and the news mentioned that this guy did that. At that moment, I didn’t know how his legend would grown and the impact he would have. But I began to read about him, what I could, since there was no internet back then, it was all about the art magazines. Years later as books and biographies became available, I’d scoop them up and read, and learn all about his life, these days he’s almost a household name.
On that level, I made this drawing in pen and ink, in 2001. The image is floating on a sheet of watercolor paper about 18 x 24 inches.