I'm separating out my art/comics identity from my commercial design/illustration. I've been struggling with whether to keep them together for a while. I think that as an artist, identity is important, and having the space to explore and express an identity that isn't necessarily commercially palatable is important to have before even trying to create anything. To have a safe place to expand and escape, and to be a dreadful teenager if I need to be. So; youth decay it is.
Huge thanks to Andy at Broken Frontier for choosing to review my book, 'The Deep', and saying some wonderful things. I do have more ideas in the pipeline, some small and some ambitious, which I hope to be publishing soon. "Part graphic narrative and part pure sequential art, Sarah Ingram’s The Deep utilises potent visual metaphor to immerse the reader in the world view of a teenage girl suffering from depression. Ingram acknowledges a debt to Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Elm’ as way of introduction to this short 25-page minicomic but the true power of the book’s narrative lies in the synthesis of stark and affecting imagery with raw yet succinct prose to forge a profound emotional connection between audience and creator." Read more... |
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