Every Saturday, 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 29-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Half hostage. Half victim. Blackmail shifts around. There is a closing up and drawing in. The spectacle is the reward. In a catalytic cycle the universe behaves. A crowd chants out at ringside. Calling for the revival of cruelty. Calling out for more. When a direction’s taken it starts justifying itself. Beginning by imposing a dismissal of all that’s unexplored. Direction becomes a window in the semi-dark of night. We are peering in or we are gazing out. We are gazing. We are gazing. Out. And the crowd calls out for more. Calling for the revival of cruelty.
“The Revival Of Cruelty,” from The Eagle & The Poodle (Matador, 1996; Smarten UP!, 2009) (download):
