ILLUSTRATIONS

It was through books that I first encountered the power of images. Creating these black and white artworks was my way of paying homage to the beloved books of my childhood. Through illustrations, I discovered the inseparable bond between images and words. While the challenge of piecing letters into words was arduous, the presence of pictures was a welcome escape from "work." A block of text alone would be 'boring' without the presence of accompanying pictures. However, seeing things without words was lacking too. Of course, it was only later that I learned that signs and letters had pictorial origins and writing was thus an evolved form of drawing.