Oil-based pastels on paper. 30 Days In Senegal is being sold as a suite of five drawings and may not be broken up.  A portion of the sale of the works created at Thread, will be donated to Le Korsa.

Thread Artist Residency and Cultural Center does not have creative stipulations or qualifications for the type of work that is to be produced. The only expectation is that the artist spends time at the site of the residency and meaningfully engages with the local community. 30 Days in Senegal serves as a visual diary or timeline of Cronin’s experiences there and acts as a code by which to understand his methods of assimilating his background with his experiences on-site at Thread. It is a chronicle of his discoveries. The inclusion of symbols from his previous work -- bunnies, flies, arrows, stars, and bold typography, amongst others represents a distinct visual language that Cronin is able to effortlessly tap into. A free-form patchwork of moments remembered– or realized in the moment of drawing– move across each sheet of thick paper in a style that looks a bit like a hybrid of the unlikely duo of Twombly and Basquiat– but is nevertheless pure Cronin. In one of these, the words “Je m’appelle Pablo Picasso” jump out. Cronin had met someone in Sinthian (the local town) who spoke little or no English but who communicated the concept of artist with the great one’s name. So Cronin was a Pablo Picasso to him. In the same drawing Cronin includes a can of bug spray, the Senegalize flag, and his own illustrated food revue: “Fish and Rice Very Nice.” It’s his life, he’s making his art. He just happens to be in Senegal.