Fundamentally, as an illustrator I turn words and ideas into images. I begin by reading a text or synopsis, gleaning from it sufficient information to start visualizing an image. Variably, the image must convey a mood, tell a literal truth, or distill the complex into symbol or metaphor. With the conceptual thrust understood, intuition winds the process through myriad linear and abstract channels marrying information with aesthetics, and the sketch builds itself. If I get it right, the final picture will entertain, inform, amuse, or offend, or give pause to invite consideration of an accompanying text. Or it will stand alone as a statement unto itself.

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