DRAWINGS

I went back through all of it.

Every illustration in the archive — the older series and the new ones — got pulled apart and rebuilt. Mostly it was the shading. I'd been living with flat light for years and didn't notice how much it was holding the work down. Cast shadows, depth, the way a lamp actually throws across a room. Small things. They add up.

The difference is hard to overstate, and I'll try not to. But I'll sit with these now. That's new. For a long time I'd finish a piece, feel the gap between what I saw and what landed, and move on. This time the gap closed.

Same hands, same rooms, same figures. They just look the way they were supposed to look all along.

More soon.