It may be easy to think, “I’m just drawing for kids, we should keep politics out of it.” But how does one do that when every artistic act – of inclusion or omission – is a political one?
June 11, 2024
Other observations
A conversation with a pencil
If a pencil could talk, what would it say to you? Nothing, I suspect, if you don’t use it.
I believe in you
Are there any set of words that one human can say to another that have a more profound effect than these?
A siren’s song
Social media is a siren’s song – of scale, of connection, of ‘monetisation’, of a valuable way to spend time. Might there be a better way?
Building muscles
No one expects me to run a marathon if I can’t even run 5km but when it comes to art, do we also need to build muscle?
It’s never felt more like work
Should picture book making feel like work? Or should it feel like some utopia where someone pays me for ‘art’?