Come On Make My Day!
Rendered in graphite pencil on paper, this 1989 drawing by Greek artist Yiannis Nomikos presents a seated figure in a state of relaxed repose — its human body crowned with a horse’s head, turned upward and away from the viewer. The title, borrowed from one of cinema’s most recognizable lines, is deployed here not as aggression but as wry deflection: a challenge issued with a kind of weary nonchalance, the figure apparently indifferent to its own surreal anatomy.
Nomikos works within a tradition of figurative drawing that has long used the hybrid body as a vehicle for psychological and mythological inquiry — from classical centaurs to the metamorphic dreamscapes of twentieth-century Surrealism. The horse-headed figure occupies an ambiguous space between the heroic and the absurd, the ancient and the contemporary. The graphite medium, with its subtle gradations and the visible trace of the artist’s hand, lends the image a provisional quality: this is a body still in the process of becoming, its posture oscillating between vulnerability and composure.
Imago Dei presents this work as part of its commitment to figurative drawing as a discipline both rigorous and unconstrained — a practice that, in Nomikos’s hands, finds humor, pathos, and formal intelligence in equal measure.
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