Kyle Thurman

Kyle Thurman: My name is Kyle Thurman.

Narrator: Thurman bases these large-scale drawings on photographs he finds online, mostly in news sources.

Kyle Thurman: I'm interested in how drawing relates to photography, so there's the link between the digital image and how it translates into a drawing and what changes in that transformation, and what new things emerge through the act of drawing, based on photography.

I'm interested in creating a contrast to the speed at which we typically look at and digest digital images, to create a slower process of looking at these images. This doesn't necessarily mean that the drawings always take a super long time to make.

I look at these drawings as fragments of larger stories, and I'm interested in how, when these fragments are put together in a room, there's tensions created between the drawings that open up possible narratives.

I obviously remove the context of the kind of scene or the site at which these characters are existing, and this can open up the read of the drawing a lot.