https://nickm.com/post/2020/05/am-well-thinking-of-you-always-love/ Nick Montfort Tue, 19 May 2020 02:35:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/2020/05/am-well-thinking-of-you-always-love/comment-page-1/#comment-936712 Tue, 19 May 2020 00:39:42 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=4934#comment-936712 Lilla LoCurto & Bill Outcault’s “Am well. Thinking of you always. Love.” Isolation #6 has a deep surface. In other words, through working the surface of their illustration, until rough, worn, and crusted over with powdered pastel, a tender and reflective portrait emerges. The work seems strident at first, a striking figure screams urgently, composed as a diagonal stripe across the page. Yet, it’s the delicate swatches of color embedded in the worked surface, like stains left behind on old clothes, bedsheets, or napkins, that whisperingly tell us of deep relationships past and now transformed through isolation.

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