Recent work done for This Land Press in Oklahoma. The illustration accompanies a fictional short story that satirically re-tells the biblical story of God's creation and destruction based on His own loneliness, sadness and grief and the conflicts that arise from such things. This piece contrasts God and nature with man and society. Modernizing the story of the flood, with God looking down, His eye as time, to see what man has done with His world. Man plays the role of God as we create and attempt to control society based on our own grief, using laws, power, religion, etc. for some believed benefit of the world. Now, that is all gone and he is alone. Or is he? It's a loaded image that formed into something that is as personal as it is illustrative and I had a lot of fun making it. Thanks to AD Jeremy Luther for the job and the freedom allowed in it's creation.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Flood
Recent work done for This Land Press in Oklahoma. The illustration accompanies a fictional short story that satirically re-tells the biblical story of God's creation and destruction based on His own loneliness, sadness and grief and the conflicts that arise from such things. This piece contrasts God and nature with man and society. Modernizing the story of the flood, with God looking down, His eye as time, to see what man has done with His world. Man plays the role of God as we create and attempt to control society based on our own grief, using laws, power, religion, etc. for some believed benefit of the world. Now, that is all gone and he is alone. Or is he? It's a loaded image that formed into something that is as personal as it is illustrative and I had a lot of fun making it. Thanks to AD Jeremy Luther for the job and the freedom allowed in it's creation.
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Joan's Carrots On Sale
New spot illustration for the media column in the Chicago Reader. I had less than a day turnaround for this one. The article discusses the new state of media and marketing compared to those of the past.
With the current state of media, things can become an overnight international sensation. "Fame hasn’t spread so swiftly since the early 15th century, when Joan of Arc was an anonymous peasant one day and leader of the French army against the English approximately the next." "May I think of it this way? Joan of Arc was burned at the stake to the applause of priests who found it intolerable that anyone, much less a teenage girl, could claim to be speaking directly with God. If tomorrow our heretical grocer is not only peddling his carrots on the internet but directly entertaining his customer base with a brief discourse on root crops —well, the daily paper he no longer needs will be in no position to put him to the torch."

Read the full article here.
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