Most people seem to think this drawing is of The Great Wall of China... it's not. I did this drawing in 1989 in commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down.As a symbolic reprsentation, it also has references to the "psychological walls" that people often build and need to break apart and tear down.

The specific idea for the design came from my exploration of vanishing points within a perspective plane. I wanted to achieve a simultaneous view of both vanishing points of an object, which inevitably wound up being a wall. An interesting mathmatical journey led me to the odd, spherical version you see here.

This is also one of the few drawings in which I combined the use of pen and pencil. On several occasions, I've added pencil to a pen & ink drawing as a shading effect. But "The Wall" is the first drawing I used the two mediums seperately in direct relation to the subject matter, with the ink on the left side that flourishes with trees and growth and the pencil on the right side to achieve the dry, barren effect.

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