Jeremy Lawson - It takes a village

Jeremy Lawson is fascinated by the way we create archetypes to serve a purpose, only for them to take on lives of their own. 'It Takes a Village' considers that the conspiracies behind political assassinations in the 1960s were fictionalised by the creation of the lone gunman myth - the shooter who has no clear motive other than their social alienation. This only served to convince a public all too aware of its own alienation; that same public now produces actual lone gunmen on an industrial scale. Searching with Google Images, Lawson drew every picture of Lee Harvey Oswald available except for that of his murder. A selection of 26 of those drawings is reproduced here.