Sunday, September 6, 2009

PORTFOLIO DAY #2


{ EVERY SUNDAY FEATURES A RECENT COMMISSION }

ART DIRECTOR, KATIE MATHEY FROM The Atlantic commissioned an illo for the 2009 Fiction issue. The piece accompanies an essay by Tom O'Brien about the importance of the imagination in fiction writing. O'Brien sites a short story by Luis Borges entitled, The Aleph, a fictional point in space that contains all other points.

". . . and if you position yourself on the cellar floor, you will see a tiny sliver of light that contains everything -- everything that ever was, everything that will be".



FOR A FULL TEXT GO TO:

http://theatlantic.com/doc/200908/tim-obrien-essay

Here are the various stages of the piece from rough to final. A very reference heavy piece. Because of the subject matter I built the whole substructure on The Golden Mean. (SEE BELOW). The red circles represent specific objects that needed referencing. Workin' hard for the money.

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