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Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier, 2015

  • Artist

    Tony Lewis

  • Title

    Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier

  • Date

    2015

  • Medium

    Graphite powder and correction tape on paper

  • Dimensions

    Image: 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (6 × 6 cm) Frame: 20 7/8 × 20 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (53 × 51.8 × 4.4 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family

  • Object Number

    2016.8

Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier is inspired by Tony Lewis’s love of Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Lewis uses individual panels from the comics to write poetry—bridging the gap between drawing and writing—by using graphite and corrective tape to obscure the original illustrations and narrative text. The poem Lewis finds in this panel is evocative of his artistic process of revision and amendment—one can imagine a mouth being erased and redrawn.


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Artworks

Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier, 2015

  • Artist

    Tony Lewis

  • Title

    Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier

  • Date

    2015

  • Medium

    Graphite powder and correction tape on paper

  • Dimensions

    Image: 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (6 × 6 cm) Frame: 20 7/8 × 20 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (53 × 51.8 × 4.4 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family

  • Object Number

    2016.8

Make His Mouth Bigger, Angrier is inspired by Tony Lewis’s love of Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Lewis uses individual panels from the comics to write poetry—bridging the gap between drawing and writing—by using graphite and corrective tape to obscure the original illustrations and narrative text. The poem Lewis finds in this panel is evocative of his artistic process of revision and amendment—one can imagine a mouth being erased and redrawn.


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