Many drawings contain an area of abstraction, a linear network like a maze.
In addition to being references to how intellectual and visual information is processed, the drawings contain engaging contrasts.
Most drawings contain near their bottom edge a sensitive rendering of a fish, a different species each time.
He has so far completed some 5,000 drawings, contained in 65 pocket-size notebooks that he refers to as "yearbooks".
Traditional Jewish art is mainly decorative -- candelabras, Torah covers -- or having to do with the Hebrew language, like drawings containing micrographic transcriptions of religious texts.
The early drawings contain erotic and religious elements, rendered with a fine line and delicate coloring; the later work is often primarily a mass of words that form abstract shapes.
His drawings contain "a strange mix of childhood imagery and sexuality, but somehow avoid any hint of child sexuality," as Mark Hughes, director of Galerie Lelong in New York City, which represents the artist, said when I called to ask about Mr. English's work.
In addition, these 3D drawings contain only graphical entities, such as lines, arcs and circles.
Drawings contained in Holinshed's Chronicles, one of the sources Shakespeare used when creating the characters, portray them as members of the upper class.
His figurative etchings -- self-portraits and rope knots, mostly -- and scratched grease-pencil drawings contain as much density of pattern interference and intense linework as do his most scarified abstractions.
