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There's a line in Henry James' Portrait of a Lady which sums me up pretty well. He writes,
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'Her imagination was so ridiculously active,
if the door was not opened to it, it jumped out the window.'
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I was raised in Kent, and though I have had no formal training in illustration, was raised by a photographer and a product designer. They taught me to look, and look twice. Place has always been important to me, and it's present in my writing and my art. I think it's about that tug toward home. Drawing places and maps of places that are meaningful to people makes me glad.
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It says in the Bible, 'If we did not sing- the rocks would cry out.' And that's really the heart of why I create anything at all, ever. Because we're all saying something- with our words yes, but with our lives and choices and with whatever our hands find to make.
For me, there are a good deal of things on this earth that fill me with wonder. It comes out as a gasping 'oh!' as I learn things, travel, talk, listen, read, sing, write, adore, ache. That 'oh!' is behind everything I make. That is what I am saying.
And like the rocks, let my 'Oh!' be to glory of God.
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