David Byrne

Musician, artist, thinker David Byrne created drawings/diagrams (mostly) in the form of trees. The drawings were published by McSweeney’s as Arboretum in 2006 – straight from Byrne’s sketchbook, smudges and all, plus a four-foot foldout guide. It’s an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist — a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, it’s sometimes called the application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises.