Steve Morrison's Blog, page 22
April 14, 2011
April 1, 2011
March 31, 2011
Birthday Card
If you haven't been invited to Eliza's 4th birthday party yet...you must not have met her. I'm pretty sure every grocery store clerk and waitress in the state has been personally invited.
March 30, 2011
March 29, 2011
March 28, 2011
Yellow House
Drawing for a friend. She's moving and wanted her kids to remember the house.
March 26, 2011
Toy!
A set of blocks I made for my daughter's Christmas present. It's a six-sided puzzle. I've been meaning to post this for months.
March 25, 2011
Book Review: The Golden Ass
This is one of my favorite books--it's a wild and hilarious fantasy that plumbs the depths and ascends the heights of humanity. The hero, Lucius, is transformed into a donkey and mingles with robbers, murderers, prostitutes, ghosts, witches, a guy with a golden nose, lovers, priests, and gods. He witnesses the whole mess of late-Roman life, from street violence and sexual degradation to the wistfulness of love and spiritual transcendence. As Oscar Wilde put it, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
It's a sort of ribald Romana Commedia. And it's also the source of the profound and lovely tale of Cupid and Psyche, a lyrical story of symbolic love.
I made a series of illustrations to this book after reading it--you can see them here.
