In 1973, art found itself at the pinnacle of a cultural shift. The United States military mission had just withdrawn from Vietnam after nearly two decades, and the optimism of the mid-century gave way to uncertainty. Art, even when created for mass appeal, took on a darker dimension. The highest-grossing film of 1973 - The Exorcist - and the most successful album - Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon - gave us a glimpse of the cultural landscape of the time.
The following year, a new wave of art - films like Chinatown and albums like Bob Marley's Natty Dread - illuminated a broken system. And it gave us the tools to understand it. Art reflects the world around us and helps us process complex issues, so we can move forward. Leonard Cohen once said: “There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” Art creates cracks in the darkest places of the world, allowing the light of knowledge to enter.
Fifty years later, Blackwing 2 acknowledges the role of art in driving change. Each pencil features a glow-in-the-dark crackled design, playing with the duality of art and the challenging realities that inspire it. Each pencil also includes the hardest graphite we've ever made - a special 2X hard graphite, specially formulated for this edition.
- Lead Material
- Graphite
- Lead Hardness
- Hard
- Extras
- With an eraser
- Pieces
- 12 pcs
- Packages
- 1 packages
- Triangle Grip
- No
- Set
- Yes
- Colour
- Black
Important information
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