This is the first major work involving the Multiple Image technique

 

As his art matured he developed a unique style of multiple image. As he described this "We never really see a person in static form. We remember them in a multiple image. I am attempting to show this difference in time, to get an intellectual depth rather than the depth of a draftsman. The idea of painting pictures with multiple images first came through drawing and correcting. Part of the plan is to create intrigue and excitement. Things tend to be dull when they are static. Here ones curiosity is aroused. What is occurring?

 

This is an image, not necessarily in motion, but an image that is changing. Changing it in one sense in motion. Another sense in emotion; change of attitude or personality.

 

This began simply the same as all the others purely drawing on the Masonite, just starting off with no plan, no special looking forward to anything but just the seeking out the mystery of it all. Just the excitement of something happening while you're actually making these marks.

 

 It's just like one thread leading to another, and here this Harlequin was the first figure the motion of the head.

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Hands were the things that interested me about the change. Put it that the restlessness of this particular figure. He's the only one in in in the beginning in this panel. And it had some kind of thing in his hand in the first few brush marks. And then these brush marks looked like a bird. And so a bird evolved out of. These few quick brush marks.

 

The second figure came to be a man in armor, This the armor again came about accidentally, but it as it began to work out. I felt that here I had a figure of a warrior. In contrast to a figure of a Harlequin, that is, that's as far as any kind of thinking went.

The Man with a Wounded Bird 1958