The Mirror That Brings Us Closer—
Strength · Reflector · Hexagram 19: Approach

Shadow laid to rest
Seeing comes—nothing hidden
The heart moves nearer

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#StrengthCard #ReflectorCard #haiku
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Where Wings Stir the Ache —
Ace of Pentacles · Lion · Hexagram 41: Decrease

Birds of a feather
They meet without command
Cost held in silence

#symbolicreading #oracle #tarot
#nickbantock #iching41 #decrease
#divination #poetrypractice #dailyhaiku

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“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.” — Nick Bantock, The Artful Dodger
#QOTD #NickBantock #Quote #Randomness

“I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.” — Nick Bantock, The Artful Dodger
#qotd #NickBantock #career #predictable #continuity #quote #ChildrensRhyme

#Collage from the vault. Date unknown, early 2000's #papercollage #art #outsiderart #graphicdesigner #graphicartist #paperart If you can't tell, I'm heavily influenced by the work of #nickbantock and the Griffin and Sabine books.

Recap of graphic storytelling panel at the @alcuin awards, with @j_xmas, @SarahBLeavitt, @NickBantock & @inkstuds: <a href="http://www.ivacheung.com/2016/09/graphic-storytelling/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.ivacheung.com/2016/09/graphic-storytelling/

For younger people, "the idea of waiting for a letter to get to someone and waiting to get something back is anathema." @NickBantock

.@NickBantock talking about how the audience has changed between the first Griffin & Sabine (1991) and the latest one (just out this year)…

.@j_xmas cites @NickBantock as an influence—"I didn’t know you could walk in two worlds like that—the graphic world and the literary world."

"Publishing houses are very, very strange… A lot of them have still got their feet in Victorian times." —@NickBantock

Apparently the only country where Griffin & Sabine didn't take off was the UK, 'cause the publisher shrink-wrapped the books. @NickBantock

"It allows your intellect and intuition to come into the same space." —@NickBantock

You can use imagery to fill in the background without saying it directly with prose. —@NickBantock

.@NickBantock says he thinks of words and images in his work like a marriage—they support each other; one's not subservient to the other.

Tweeting from the @Alcuin awards. Stoked for tonight's graphic storytelling panel—@j_xmas, @SarahBLeavitt + @NickBantock!

"—it was all symbols and signposts, too specific to be dismissed as a dream and too inexact to be a story." #theprintedword #NickBantock