![]() My hand is everywhere but mainly in support of the piece compositionally, in pattern and line quality, making some pieces stand out and others fall back. I work a lot of these things and often when asked which are my works on a wall, I struggle to show a good answer. ![]() When it comes to the drawing itself, I often feel my role to be that of the bass player- keeping the rhythm section tight. Unicorn Blood and Powdered Dreams of Children. It comes from French and means: “as a whole”, or “all together”. “EN MASSE” is a great expression, having the same meaning in both French and English (a great thing in MTL!). The project draws life from the many artists who take part in the project to explore the creation of collective vision works greater than any one person could create on their own. This is a profoundly simple beast in essence, but powerful in process. The concept has changed very little since the beginning. Two minutes later, thinking this was one of the dumbest ideas we’d ever had, we stumbled upon the idea of covering the walls of the gallery in paper or canvas and inviting these same cats (28 in total) to the space for an enormous experimental black and white free-form jam. ![]() We’d been given carte blanche in this beautiful Old Port Montreal space, and decided it would be interesting to create a salon style exhibition, showcasing the work of many local artists we knew at the time who had little if any gallery exposure or representation. Tim Barnard and myself originally created the En Masse project in 2009 at the Galerie Pangee, Montreal. Property owners are begging En Masse for a cacophony of chaos to tattoo their walls and we wanted to hear from the conductor of chaos himself: Jason Botkin. Imagine if the doors of perception had been blown off their hinges and you were staring down the rabbit hole into a vortex of monochromatic images swirling out of control. En Masse murals are a writhing mass of bold lines depicting a metamorphic world of Pop Surrealism. En Masse is a collaboration of over 200+ artists from all over the world based in Montreal, Canada, united by simply one maxim: the art has to be black and white.
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