![]() ![]() This wasn’t the way I usually worked I’d just spent two years immersed in the book, so it felt a bit strange. JM: I had no idea what to do for the cover, but the plan was that the design team would put one together in-house. When you first started thinking about the cover, did you already have a picture in your mind? What aspects of the book did you want to highlight? Wild magic.Ī later version, drawn after reading Robert's poem Jackie's dogs watch the ravens fly on a walk The perfect answer to the unvoiced question I was asking the ravens. We walked up the hill to watch the ravens fly and she ran away and off and over the hill, and when I called her she came back, with a raven feather in her mouth. I wrote out the words, and they flew in my dreams. Then his raven flew into my inbox, and from that moment I could only work on the raven, redrafting my images. After all, what could Robert write that would make me paint it any differently? I thought one day, when I was stuck on a problem, that I would just paint the raven idol. Now and again, if I moved ahead, I would have to redraft. And I think that the words and images each informed the other. Sometimes it took a week of walking and worrying away at a problem to find an answer. And finding the solution was where the work lay. But how to illustrate an absence from language? That was the problem. ![]() It took a while, working through other thoughts and ideas, before we reached this point. ![]()
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