This photo-collage appears in the Oct. 19, 09 issue of The Nation. It was made for an article written by Corey Robin titled "The First Counter-revolutionary", about the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. One of the points that interested me most was that Hobbes supported a strong central power, in his days that would be the king, but also believed that the central power should be an extension of the will of the people. So, his politics can be claimed by both modern left and right movements. Ché is about as left as you can get, while the crown and scepter represent the right. I put the illustration together from about 10 different sources, from historical paintings and different photos and textures. This was one that I thought worked best to just use collage and let the combination of source material express the concept without much traditional drawing.As always with The Nation, I had great art direction from John Palattella on this illustration.
