Mark Kostabi used drawings such as this one as exploratory sketches to refine what became a dominant motif in his work, the Everyman, a faceless figure accompanied by interchangeable props. In this drawing Everyman has a dunce cap and plungers as props. Kostabi’s Everyman encounters the richness and sorrows of life in a variety of foreboding yet ironic situations inspired by sources as varied as comic books and surrealist art.