The Road

This was a great assignment for GQ UK,

  for their profile and review of the movie based on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, with the movie starring Viggo Mortensen. Though the focus was on the movie and it’s two main characters,  they also wanted to address the history of the actual road where they filmed the movie, in conjunction with the book/film by showing various scenes/people through on the ages on the SAME road - almost like a visual time-line. How it started off as an Indian trail, then a route for George Washington who was aiding the British troops, then wagons, etc. Basically it is to show the history of this stretch of road that culminated in this film being made there.

I decided to do the secondary elements separate, so that I could have more control over the composition. As a result, I did a painting of a broken down pickup! Fun!