RESEARCH Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley's piece 'City 0000', inspired by the city called Kandor in the Superman comic books, is an amazing 3D piece. While it is a little too sci-fi based for my taste, the same basic principle of creating this fantasy world applies. It is not terrible relevant apart from that, but I believe the piece is beautiful. His use of colour and almost simplistic style really speaks of comics books and their strong graphic style, which contrasts the amount of detail and monochromatic imagery I use in my sketches. While I will probably combine my etchings and sketches with plastics and glass at some point, I feel colour adds another element to these cityscapes, which currently I do not find terribly important.