Maria Krasinski

When was the last time you really looked around you? Over a four-month period in 2016, Andrew North sat in the same spot in the massive open-air Eliava hardware market in Tbilisi, Georgia drawing a 360º panoramic view of the stalls and sellers of Soviet-era wares. Although he’d only recently started to learn Georgian, he was fascinated by the scene and got to know the vendors on his repeated visits — and that’s when the story emerged. People have been telling stories through art for millennia.