Robert P. Taylor's JuryDuty: reflections on a trial 

Statistics suggests that a pool or population of items of certain kinds reflect what may be essential about the item, far better any one of the item alone can. As the pool grows larger, the picture becomes clearer, though it remains general and not predictive of the way a particular item might behave or look at some specific instant. I have translated this concept into my drawing with the following result. Each individual whom I wish to represent as an individual, I draw rapidly, as many times as possible, from as many perspectives as possible, confident that the pool of images (even if it contains no more than 3 or 4) will represent her or him much better than any carefully constructed single portrait could, no matter how carefully done or from what perspective. Extrapolating the idea, in drawing a group, I try to draw as many members of the group as possible, confident that it is the pool of group members and not of any one individual that depicts the group. I may draw some of the group members twice, just to get a bit of depth, but generally, I concentrate on covering as many different members as possible and getting drawings of them into a group pool. This site is a sort of compromise. A jury small but not tiny group, so given the time I could expect to have to draw them, I set a goal of getting at least 2 drawings of as many of them as possible, and if there were time, to get a couple of them again. As it turned out, I came close. The resulting pool of drawings reflects the individuals somewhat, but mostly provides a general picture of the jury.