Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
In art, there’s a balancing act between the literal and the figurative when it comes to how art addresses problems, whether those problems are personal or have more to do with how we move through society. If you’re too literal (like using a guy balancing to illustrate … balancing) or too oblique, you run the risk of losing engagement.
“Art Was The Great Leveler” from Empathy For The Evil (M’lady’s, 2014) (download):
