or the past four years, I have been working around the clock, trying to dig out from underneath the workload I took on as the world became trapped beneath COVID. I was signed up to illustrate four picture books, the most I have ever had at one time. I was also up for tenure. Normally, all good things, but COVID buried us alive. We all went through it, so we all know what I am talking about. As I head into final art for the fourth and final book, as I finish crawling out from underneath the rock we were all trapped under, the air feels lighter, and the rain tastes sweeter than I remember.
ature is religion: While working on final art for my latest picture book (Mazie's Amazing Machines), I watched a few documentaries on Vincent Vangoh. What a tormented soul. Life is heavy for sensitive spirits who cannot build systems in their head to protect themselves. Like most famous creators of the past and present, Vincent found nature to be his religion. Nature is closer to the answer than we are, that is for sure.
