Type7C — Visual Artist
Michael McManus
An evolving archive of chalk, drawing, and paint.
The Becoming
2025 – 2026 · Chalk on board · in seven parts
A series on growth, memory, and the slow unfolding of identity. Each piece marks an inward state, moving from solitude to multiplicity and back again. The originals are erased, only the photograph remains.
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Commission Spotlight
Portrait Without a Face
A private commission for a friend, drawn over the course of a year. He sent me a brain dump of about a hundred words and asked for a piece, anything I wanted to make of it. From that I drew a portrait of him with no face in it at all, carrying forty to fifty references only he would recognize. He asked me not to tell him what they were; he wanted to find them over time.
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A personal archive that has grown over time, a record of ongoing attention to the work.