The Runaway Artist

2009
Notebook with 49 illustrations
graphite on paper

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Description:
For my senior thesis at Parsons, I wrote and designed a book called, “This Is Really Gay,” about my experience coming out and coming into gay culture in the early 2000’s. Five years later, I developed that book of visual essays into an illustrated novel. Or maybe a novel in illustrations.
In one version, the illustrations were all photo-collages. In another they were line drawings, like a coloring book. For this version, I drew all the illustrations in pencil in a leather-bound notebook. Like the sketchbooks that I keep. This series is titled, “The Runaway Artist,” about a freshman coming out of the closet at art school in New York. May everyone be so lucky.

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