Ken Currie

This extensive portfolio is based on the true story of a man Currie met one night in Glasgow begging for money. The man described his employment with Glasgow’s British Rail, his work as a union organizer, and his happily married life. But, when his wife died suddenly, he fell into a depression, suffered an accident at the plant, lost his home, and became an alcoholic. Currie felt compelled to tell his story as it seemed to be “very much a story of our times.” Hoping to do justice to his tragic life he created this novel without words in the tradition of the early 20th-century woodcut artist, Frans Masereel.