Illustrator/Author Jamie Hogan
Long ago I decided to only post when a project was complete. Complete? Whenever is the messy, compelling work of engagement work around children’s lit complete? What about the ideas that bubble up every day? The sweet progress and frightful road blocks? Each day we have brainstorms around manuscripts, galleys, and F&G’s–things happening now that will not happen to readers until months or years from now.
Illustrator Jamie Hogan’s Jamie Peeps blog is endlessly compelling because it is about the rich creative life she is living now. Is there room for Curious City’s now?
Strangely what has really pushed me to thinking about the way I work and write about it is a wee set of sketches that Jamie Hogan showed me by her MECA Illustration student Zoe Reifsnyder. Now Jamie Hogan was meeting me for lunch to talk about the promotion of her work, but the majority of the time she was showing me instead the work of her students. Jamie was just back from a rainy day sketching trip to Maine Audubon with her students where they all sketched from Audubon’s extensive taxidermy collection. (See Jamie Peep’s post about trip here.)
Zoe’s mind bloomed characters from those animal sketches. Stories TBD. Who will write them? When will they be read? Or is all the story we need right here?
I am trying to let ‘complete’ go.
