The artist's nightmarish drawings depict the rhythms of modernity
Terje Brofos, better known by the pseudonym Hariton Pushwagner, drew the world as he saw it; illustrations of imagined worlds depicted circular realities of family units going about their identical lives in order to keep the world turning, to keep capitalism ticking.
På Vei II, or On the Road II, (lead image) comes from Pushwagner’s series A Day in the Family Man’s Life (1980), which portrays a city stacked with identikit families leading robotic, pill-placated lives. Rows of workers drum away at their desks while an overlord with a captive tiger manages the production of munitions; all the while, a future generation of labourers is brought up in line.
From Hariton Pushwagner’s Soft City, drawn 1969-75, a graphic novel imagining life lived in a city structured by the production and products of the Soft corporation
Credit: Hariton Pushwagner
