Like most adolescent boys, Alex Brown loves video games, comics, and sci-fi movies. But this particular teenager (13 at the time of this issue’s publication) forged them into something completely unique: riveting drawings of real and imagined battles evoking the fury and chaos of war. We feature a selection taken from a few of Alex’s 14" x 17" sketchbooks. These barrages of gesture and color take on conflict in formal, psychological, and social terms, betraying the vision and drive of an artist in the making. Interview included.
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Doing Battle
By Alex Brown
Alex Brown is a graduate student at the Elliot School of International Affairs in the Europe and Eurasia Studies Program. He received his B.A. in International Studies and Russian at Trinity College-Hartford. His work was published in Esopus 7 for the first time.