Ticking Clock Pen Ink Drawing – Original Art, 18x24

This striking pen and ink drawing is from the studio of contemporary New Mexico artist Thomas Hill and measures a large 18" x 24".

This original 18x24 pen and ink drawing by New Mexico contemporary artist Thomas Hill is a surreal, highly detailed composition filled with symbolic imagery, dreamlike architecture, floating numbers, distorted time, mountains, abstract forms, and a powerful face emerging from the lower edge of the page.

The artwork combines meticulous linework, cross-hatching, and imaginative visual storytelling. A clock, hands, city buildings, checkerboard pattern, landscape elements, dripping forms, flowers, webs, numbers, and handwritten textures create a strange psychological world that feels part dream, part memory, and part visual puzzle.

Drawn on archival paper, this one-of-a-kind original is ideal for collectors of surreal art, outsider art, imaginative black-and-white drawings, New Mexico art, and highly detailed pen and ink work.

Details:
Original artwork, not a print
Artist: Thomas Hill
Medium: Pen and ink on archival paper
Size: 18 x 24 inches
Style: Surreal, symbolic, black and white, hand-drawn
Signed by the artist
Ships carefully packaged for protection

The artwork displayed is a black and white illustration filled with a variety of detailed and imaginative elements. At the bottom center, there is a man's face with a solemn expression, gazing upwards. His face takes up a considerable portion of the composition, suggesting he is a central subject of the piece. Both his head and facial features are rendered with meticulous attention to detail, particularly the skin texture and facial hair.
Above the man's head is an assortment of surreal and whimsical features. To the left, a curtain with a harlequin pattern emerges, alongside a texture resembling melting wax or dripping paint. A sequence of numbers from 1 to 11 winds down the center, adjacent to a clock with its hands showing the time and limbs extended from its sides as if it is in motion, adding a sense of dynamism and possibly a hint of fleeting time or urgency.
The right side of the illustration is occupied by flying dandelions seed heads, a hand reaching out, and cloud-like forms surrounding the text "TROMBONE." There are also buildings depicted with a sense of skewed perspective and an organic form resembling a piece of terrain or rock. The top right corner features an amorphous pattern that somewhat resembles cheese with holes.
Across the image, circles and spheres of various sizes float or situate themselves amidst the scene, contributing to the overall dreamlike atmosphere of the illustration. The elements are intricately intertwined within the composition, suggesting a narrative or symbolic meanings that might be open to the viewer's interpretation. The artwork exhibits a strong sense of fantasy and disarray, perhaps representing a stream of consciousness or a surreal dreamscape.

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