Is it possible that making marks on paper – either letters or lines – can help us navigate otherwise overwhelming decisions?
Author: Matt Shanks
Investing in yourself
Why would I pay someone thousands of dollars for a certificate, but I struggle invest in myself in order to grow, learn, and develop?
Creating space for the reader
What if illustrations didn’t prescribe a world to the reader, but, instead, suggested one?
Every drawing is a raffle ticket
Until I’ve put an idea on a page, it’s nothing more than an idea – something that’s difficult to see, hold, and connect with.
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’?
Rendering the invisible
Perhaps the role of an artist is to render the invisible so we become more attentive to the world as it is?