![]() ![]() So, if you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, this is a heavy work of art. It is an offhand remark of Wordsworth’s that helped me when I needed a new way to move forward: “The matter always comes out of the manner.” How you say something has direct bearing on what you say. ![]() Perhaps he means that there has been an imposition of too much of my will upon the material with which I was working. ![]() “There is too much sweat in it,” is how my friend, the artist Vladimir Radunsky, would put it. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. In the early days I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. Hmm, I’m not sure minimal is such a complimentary term, but I’ll accept it. I’m sometimes asked about my general approach to illustration, which has over the years come to be described as minimal. ![]()
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