I like illustrators. Ran across Roderick Mills work today in a New York Times story about debates in the US surrounding science and politics. His illustrations are drawing that seems influenced by the printing process and layered media.
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I am a sudden admirer of his. I saw his work on a book jacket, looked him up online, and it seems I was the only one who didn't know his art. Being an illustrator myself, my discovery is mixed with a certain envy. The line is so offhand, so cramped and wonderful, as if it comes straight from the id. He reminds me very much of another artist from a couple decades ago, who I also loved, Marvin Friedman.
"It sometimes seemed as if the author of the Book of Fish, the storyteller William Buelow Gould, had been born with a memory but neither experience nor history to account for it and had spent forever after seeking to invent what didn't exist in the curious belief that his imagination might become his experience, and thereby both explain and cure his problem of an inconsolable memory."
Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
"I shall be left with the inconsolable memory; Of the treasure I went into the forest to find And never found, and which was not there And is perhaps not anywhere? But if not anywhere Why do I feel guilty at not having found it?" T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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I am a sudden admirer of his. I saw his work on a book jacket, looked him up online, and it seems I was the only one who didn't know his art. Being an illustrator myself, my discovery is mixed with a certain envy. The line is so offhand, so cramped and wonderful, as if it comes straight from the id. He reminds me very much of another artist from a couple decades ago, who I also loved, Marvin Friedman.
He teaches at my old University. I was proud to be his student.
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