This Artist Mapped the Entire Zodiac Into a Single Charcoal Drawing │ Jaceson Mann

Selected for our Artist of the year 2025, Jaceson Mann creates drawings that don’t reveal themselves all at once. Built through a reductive charcoal process, each work begins in complete darkness before light is slowly erased into form. But what makes his practice truly compelling is the depth beneath the surface—mythology, astrology, philosophy, and symbolism all layered into a single composition. In works like his zodiac-based pieces, entire systems of thought are mapped into one image, turnin