together, he was providing the energy my previous images were missing. i was coming at it from too much of my own perspective. so i took the flavor of this image we did together, and brought it back into the images i had already done. i thought that would be the end of it.

one day, i was going over pages in the backyard, and he asked me about the poems. there's one about kittens, by wordsworth. i thought for fun, i'd just let him plan an image. so he's telling me: put this cat here. put a kitten here... and i'm like... wait. this looks great. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/76572bfe97977c76da8fa304ff59c758779aa5ede1f5b8069e6be219c8a0b039.file

the flavor there was almost... slightly pointed, highly illustrated, highly designed... let's say semi art nouveau. they looked great. i knew it had a slightly adult flavor, but i thought that would just be the tone of the book, and i set out to finish it along those lines.