Hal Baum is a Writer/Performer/Artist in the City of Chicago.

 

People On The CTA is an ongoing project where he sketches people on the CTA because he is bored on his commute to work.

 

Chicago is a city of many different worlds, and the CTA is like an inter-dimensional waiting room on wheels. It is the cracks between the paintings where all the characters hang out. It is a cross-over episode for real life. Folks from every dimension of Chicago meet briefly on the CTA to avoid eye contact and look at their phones for little bit, before getting off and returning to their own world in this varied and desperate City.