E.T. pleads not guilty to US drug charges

[muriel_volestrangler]

Who knew E.T. was Venezuela's former spy chief? Either that, or they cruelly put him in some kind of neck rack to get a confession. Or the courtroom artist briefly forgot what humans look like.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66252782

An actual photo there confirms Carvajal does have normal human proportions.

[stopdiggin]

1. so egregious (and easily correctable?)

that one almost has to consider it deliberate?
Why would any artist let this out of their sight ... ?

[Donkees]

3. It's a caricature of Carvajal's nickname, 'The Chicken'

[stopdiggin]

5. ahhhh. now that brings it into focus. thanks. -(nt)-

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It seems strange that Reuters would use the picture

Perhaps the artist has some Venezuelan connection, and found they'd got this job and thought "I can't pass this up".

[Donkees]

7. His nickname has been mentioned for years, and this artist seems more of a caricaturist ...

familiar with his history, rather than just a courtroom quick sketch artist.

Ex-Venezuela Military Spy Chief Disappears in Spain
https://www.wsj.com › articles › ex-venezuela-military-s...
Nov 13, 2019 — Mr. Carvajal, known as “El Pollo” (the chicken) for his long neck ...

Here is a photo of Carvajal, when he was a young and skinny cadet, showing his longer neck (about the time he was given the nickname)

Courtroom drawing is a prejudiced art form standing in for a disinterested technological tool; it provides an emotional interpretation instead of a freeze-frame, “art” instead of “science.”

The sketches, ultimately, are not portraits but de facto narratives. Allegory is an accurate term here, and in the staid, archetypal genre of the “courtroom drama,” the drawings are made to work like totems of innocence and guilt, good and evil, celebrity and disgrace.

https://www.artforum.com/print/200504/courtroom-drawings-8591

[GreenWave]

2. And the guy behind him is smoking a cigarette in court!

A star is deformed.
The judge has some device like a rolodex.

[Emile]

4. I think they need a new courtroom artist, lol.