Thomas Christiansen
A Thomas Christiansen portrait for The Square Ball — that brief, top-of-the-table glow of late 2017, drawn graphic and skeletal because of how it all ended.
About the Project
Thomas Christiansen. He was good for a bit — specifically the first half of the 2017/18 season, when Leeds topped the table and everything felt temporarily magical. This was for The Square Ball: a portrait that leans somewhere more graphic and skeletal, which felt about right given how the season eventually fell apart.
2017
The oil studies underneath are from an earlier life — ten-plus years of painting mixed with photography, back when I still used actual paint.
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Sequence note
Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The work is drawn at resolutions far beyond the page, so getting closer is actively encouraged.
