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  • A six-panel comic drawn in graphite on off-white paper titled “Leverage, explained”. Panels 1 through 4 and 6 are the same size; panel 5 is twice as tall. Panel 1: A man struggles to lift a large ball. Three tiny stick-figure people watch in the distance. Panel 2: The ball has been placed on a horizontal scale. The man holds it level on the other end. The stick figure crowd is still watching him. Panel 3: The man begins to push down on his side of the scale, lifting the ball slightly. The stick figure crowd is growing, pointing at and filming him. Panel 4: The man is straining to lift the ball higher. The crowd of spectators continues to grow. Three of them have joined the man; two hang by their hands from the handle of the scale, and a third sits on top of it. Panel 5: The man has lifted the ball high into the air; too high. He watches in horror as it begins to roll back down the scale, towards him. His stick figure helpers have either fallen off the edge of the scale handle or cling to it to stay on. More have joined to watch. Below the ball, a taller, thinner second person is standing and watching the man with a lit cigarette in his hand. Panel 6: The man has been squashed by the ball. The scale lays toppled over in the background. Most of the crowd of spectators have been knocked over, and the few left standing watch in horror or flee. The second person watches on with their back turned.
    Title
    Leverage, Explained
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2a
    Subject(s)
    panels (comics)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A pen-drawn two panel comic on off-white paper titled “Today’s comics… Day… & Night”. In the top panel, several cartoon people of various sizes are reading newspapers. The largest among them is a woman looking sadly down at her newspaper. Above her head, a swirled thought bubble rises and expands to form the frame of the panel. In the bottom panel, the woman lies awake in bed in the dark, eyes wide and hair messy, grabbing the bed sheets. A clock on her nightstand reads “2:30”. The binding of the sketchbook goes vertically up the left edge of the page.
    Title
    Day & Night
    CTC-19 Identifier
    day-night
    Subject(s)
    panels (comics)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A black and white photogram of two abstract silhouette faces facing each other, their mouths open. The faces are dark and two-dimensional, with white holes for eyes. Their heads are filled with spiky, three-dimensional objects that appear x-ray like.
    Title
    Debate
    CTC-19 Identifier
    debate
    Subject(s)
    photograms
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A 2-point perspective drawing of a cityscape drawn in shades of brown and black ink on white paper titled “Disconnect” in the lower left corner. From the bottom left to top right corners, a road lined with cracked sidewalks leads into a city. Where the road reaches the city, there is a “road closed” sign, and on the road beyond it stick figure people are biking and playing. Outside the city, on the left, are several vacant lots and a large hole in the ground. Inside the city are many large buildings covered in windows. Behind the city is a stone wall topped with barbed wire, and the binding of a sketchbook runs along the top of the page.
    Title
    Disconnect
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2d
    Subject(s)
    drawings (visual works)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • Pictured in black and white is a person sitting on a table against a black backdrop. The person is turned away from the camera, looking down over their right shoulder. Their long hair falls down their back and over their shoulder, covering their body and so long it reaches the table. They wear many bracelets on both wrists and are resting their hands on the surface of the table.
    Title
    Elizabeth N
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2e
    Subject(s)
    portraits
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A one-page comic titled “”Me” as a Character”. The cartoon character is drawn six times throughout the page. She has short hair and is shaped slightly like a bell. In the top left of the page, she is facing forward and saying “So hello all- this is me. I was not easy at all. It took my real version - my 3D version - many tries to get me looking like this. It's not quite right, but there you are. It is what it is and I am what I am, I suppose”. To the right, she is drawn twice. The first time, she is shrugging and beginning to say “Clearly I’m not very consistent yet. My tunic …”, but the rest of the sentence is cut off by her head and the second drawing of her, who is walking away, holding a sign that says “me!” over her shoulder, and is saying “Me! Me! Me! I! I! I!” “Whatev…” Below, on the left, she is sitting in a chair and holding something, saying “Here I am, sitting! This was really hard. It didn’t turn out too well. And what am I holding? Hmmm. Anyone’s guess!” Next to her is an arrow pointing to her hand and the question “? Can? Cup? Fireworks?” To the right of that, she is running towards the left and saying “In this one, I’m running! I hope that’s super-obvious. She messed up my right hand, clearly. Hey, it’s a process, right?” On the bottom, she is doing yoga, with her hands and head against the ground, her back arched, and her feet lifted up, saying “Down dog in a tunic is not easy”.
    Title
    Hello This is Me
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2f
    Subject(s)
    comics (documents)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A black and white drawing of a large doll in a cluttered room. The room is three-dimensional, narrowing to a back wall, and the doll is sitting towards the front, next to a door. The doll is wearing a flowered shirt and polka-dot underwear. Its left arm is dislocated and lying on the floor in front of its legs. On the right wall is a poster of the doll with partially visible text; the top says what might be “every girl wants a” and the bottom says “fully” in small text above a word that begins with “articul”. There is a box of toys on a shelf in the background. The binding of a sketchbook lines the right edge.
    Title
    In the Attic
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2g
    Subject(s)
    drawings (visual works)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • Pictured in black and white is a person with their back turned and their head looking to the side so their face is in profile against a gray background, pictured from the shoulders up. The person has light hair pulled up in a ponytail and a light beard. They are wearing a dark collared shirt patterned with small irregular ovals.
    Title
    LF Negative
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2h
    Subject(s)
    negative prints
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • A one-page ink and watercolor comic titled “No one home”. The top half of the page is taken up by a comic book style woman in a blue dress gesturing and saying “Have you wondered why it's so hard to come up with ideas when you finally sit down and really try to draw something? Why your mind goes totally fucking blank right when you’ve carved out this precious time to “get creative” and really get to work on all this shit you’ve been trying to improve upon? You’ve been chugging along, all happy with your “progress”, when suddenly the empty chamber that is your mind reveals itself to have no windows or doors that might allow the seeds of creativity to float in and germinate into anything resembling a fucking clue about how to come up with a goddamn idea?? I mean, seriously, what the hell?” Below that, on the left, the woman is staring blankly ahead. Her brain is painted brown and labeled “Empty space” with an arrow. On the right, the woman is looking to the side, and her brown-painted brain is labeled “for rent” with an arrow.
    Title
    No One Home
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2i
    Subject(s)
    comics (documents)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
  • An ink and watercolor painting titled “Sidney’s Happy Birthday Cake”. With a city skyline in the background, a bald man with stubble on his face is sitting on a brown bench surrounded by greenery. He is wearing a yellow jacket, a tie, polka-dot white shorts, and is clutching a pink cake. The cake is oozing onto his left hand, which is holding the side of the cake, while his right hand rests on top of the cake.
    Title
    Sidney's Happy Birthday Cake
    CTC-19 Identifier
    03212022-2j
    Subject(s)
    watercolors (paintings)
    Language
    English
    Creator
    R.C. Barajas
    Type
    Image
    Spacial Coverage
    Northern Virginia, United States of America
    site linkLink to site version
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