With an Instagram following of 2.7 million, Mr Doodle has demonstrated the infectiousness of his OCD, validating doodling as an art form beyond a simple cure for classroom boredom. Perhaps unintentionally, the compulsive and overflowing doodles mirror the very untamed growth in this generation and those to come.’ ii i As Pearl Lam has stated, Mr Doodle is truly ‘a millennial artist. He has drawn over surfaces ranging from ‘a leaf, a construction tunnel, and a chucked-out microwave outside someone’s house’, to murals and art installations. Lacking discrimination or differentiation, Mr Doodle’s works create an all-over composition reminiscent of the works of Mark Tobey or Jackson Pollock yet imbued with a pop sensibility well-adapted especially to the culture of kawaii within Asia. The totality of his vision extends beyond the sweeping visual aesthetic of his doodles and into a detailed narrative outlining the rise of his persona, coloured by figures such as the ‘Anti-Doodle Squad’ and ‘Dr Scribble’, and a home base of the ‘Paper Galaxy’.
Mr Doodle describes his work as the result of a unique affliction, titled OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Drawing – or ‘growing drawing virus’. Often described as ‘graffiti spaghetti’, Mr Doodle’s works multiply relentlessly, consisting of improvised anthropomorphic creatures and patterns arranged into a dense, usually monochrome, lattice.
Born Sam Cox in England, 1994, Mr Doodle began his artistic career at the age of 9, scribbling over the surface of anything and everything, constructing his own, all-consuming, Doodleland.
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