The People of the No Kings Protest

IN PROCESS Chad Harmon examines the psychology of public gatherings, positioning the viewer at the periphery of a massed crowd. A strong linear perspective, established by a heavy metal fence, pulls the eye through a dense congregation of figures holding American flags. Harmon documents these interactions from within, utilizing a vantage point that implicates the audience as a participant in the assembly. The varied mark-making—ranging from tightly rendered, colorful details on the foreground figures to dissolved, abstract graphite work at the edges—mirrors the shifting nature of group identity, where individual distinctness dissolves into a collective whole.