CHRYSALIS
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A curious little doodle from the early 1970s in line with my preoccupation at the time with the idea of reinventing the self, which in a sense I was trying to do then, having dropped out of my Engineering degree in the final year with the intention of becoming an artist and writer. It would have been more sensible to finish the degree and then turn to art but burning my bridges was half the point – making sure I couldn’t chicken out and fudge some compromise by getting a proper job. Instead I did things like drive taxis or vans and trucks, or any other practical job that came to hand.
Not the picture I would have chosen from this sketchbook if asked for a representative b/w picture, so I was equally surprised and delighted when Justin Sloane of Starship Sloane Publishing asked in Spring 2023 if they could use it for the back cover of one of their magazines: |