Always Time

A collection of Ben Bauman's pencil skull drawings has arrived from PAN's risograph studio <Mega Press> . Skulls written in hopes of relief and recovery from the sadness of losing friends and family in quick succession. Printed in October 2022, Panayiotis Terzis (PAN) is in charge of printing and production.


Always Time by Ben Bauman is a process oriented meditation on gravity and grief, assembling a series of observational sketches executed during a week-long drawing binge. From October 2021 to October 2022, Bauman experienced the loss of a succession of close family members and friends Seeking peace in the wake of death, Bauman turned to drawing as a ritual of revelation and restoration. Drawn and printed in the first 2 weeks of October 2022, this volume traces an encounter between a barrage of charcoal marks and the organic substructure of our entropic chariots-namely the human skull. Charcoal and paper are embraced as totems of death and rebirth.

Ambidextrous, expressive lines lay scattered as the debris of a shocked psyche. Existential terror and personal sorrow gaze out from the turning page as they are gradually absorbed by acceptance and humor. Is it always time?

Always Time
by Ben Bauman
Risograph printed
20 pages
27cm x 20cm

Edition of 100
2022