Brushwork using only black ink is found in China, Japan, and Korea. I chose to use this medium as a nod to my East Asian home.

I realize I get a bit nerd-tastic in my write-ups but I am obsessed with context so please forgive me. As always, there is some additional information attached to the photos.

According to a documentary stored in my head for the purpose of being remembered right here and now, in China artists who studied painting endured long, regimented apprenticeships. For ages they wouldn't even be allowed to draw living things, stuck with endless pine forests and bamboo sprouts. Drawing faces is quite a challenge for me under the best of circumstances but with a single brush I decided to honor this and not display the living parts of players. Those few that are based on figure photographs therefore do not feature the human but the trappings of the figure.

Initially, I poked amongst the high-ranked players on the list and looked at those players I was most familiar with. It occurs to me, though, that I don't dedicate enough time to expanding my circle of known players or engaging new players. I looked through every player listed starting on the last page, #65 (as of 1/12/08). The final player listed was clearly a gift to me given the photograph. There are so many players that I have never seen on the Praxis! A sea of potential greatness. I will be contacting those that I painted but who have been otherwise absent in the hopes that it will encourage them to be active in the new era.

Those painted:
Caren
Jonny
reima
FZ!
Magpie
Lincoln
Darkaardvark
The Revolutionary
The Villain

I ran out of paper (mistakes have been made)! Hardly an excuse not to keep going but I did what I set out to do for this task.