02. STEREOTYPING
I thought I would be producing world-class book jacket illustrations, reading the most profound literature - for money! As a freelance illustrator this was seldom required of me. When it was the results were disappointing to me. I would make this work while I waited for better things to come. If only I could I find a visual language that allowed me to achieve this.
Consider the following:
"Adults and children sometimes have boards in their bedrooms or living-rooms on which they pin pieces of paper: letters, snapshots, reproductions of paintings, newspaper cuttings, original drawings, postcards. On each board all the images belong to the same language and all are more or less equal within it, because they have been chosen in a highly personal way to match and express the experience of the room's inhabitant. Logically, these boards should replace museums." John Berger 1972