Thought Forms

From the vantage point of our current conservative climate, the 1960s and 70s are a watershed moment, one that marks the last time our culture believed unreservedly in immediate change as a real possibility. The vast crowds of protesters and festival–goers that stare back at us from Mike Paré´s drawings are a striking representation of youth power as both presence and idea, depicted by the artist as a utopic landscape of kaleidoscopic individuals.