Inside the Artists' Studio

My sister's new book, below, is a solo effort and tugged me back to our first big project:It's 2005, and this is how it starts: Janet unscrolls a stack of new drawings in pen and ink, charcoal, lithocrayon, chalk and pencil. What's the subject? I wonder out loud. Heads, Janet says. That is, the semi-abstract human head in various states of mind, its psychology graphically shown and connected to the abstract background by its particular vulnerabilities. Those are depicted and distorted throug...