Marcin J Chmura @ the United Suburbs

Dear visitor, 
I like stories, architecture, and drawings.  I like making them but I can't help getting them mixed up.  Sometimes I start making one and it becomes another. And other times, I’ll confidently start making another and realize it should’ve been something else all along. 

To address this problem, I squint my eyes until their boundaries blur  — just enough to make them look like one big blob.

Marcin J Chmura
08.Swinefield

Commissioned by EH Smith
  Sponsored by G F Smith Paper


London UK
2022

Commissioned by EH Smith, UK’s largest brick supplier know supplying bricks for Battersea Power Station, Swinefield is a porcine fable and allegory, riffing on the story of the Three Little Pigs and set within a fictional brickmaking metropolis. 

Once upon a time, the wolf huffed and he puffed but he never blew the door down.  The innovative and clever pigs however, harnessed the Wolf’s huffs to power their ever-expanding, self-perpetuating, brick-making metropolis, Swinefield.  The city extracts clay from the pits, moulds and fires the bricks in the Battersea Chimneys, and stored in the Brick Bank AKA Pig Floyd,  a floating pig to entice the wolf’s puffs.