It’s a word picture — literally.
A portrait drawn in pen, with all lines, shading, and graphical elements created with… WORDS [click to enlarge]:
It’s an artist’s self-portrait that (wonderfully) toys with my head:
- Metaphor is literal.
- Words are a picture.
- External self-portrait is the internal on display.
- The first word to speak itself visibly is “secret.” (see his nose)
- And the artist is my nephew.
My nephew, RobertThomas David Wiebe-King, the one who has all those names yet we call him ”Moo” (of course).
This is why I love art. Because it takes my words away. Plays with my head. Tangles with my heart. Makes me wonder even as it takes away the need for questions. Gives me black, white, and gray all at once…literally and figuratively — a most welcomed mind game that makes me get out of my head.
Art. Pray. Live.
