I had to go in on Saturday to ink the last drawing. I’d been working flat out all week to make a deadline, drawing fish, all staring eyes and spines and flabby grey flesh. I think that if they see something truly strange, completely beyond their experience, their brains edit that, too, substituting something that makes more sense in the world they know. ![]() Most people don’t often see what’s really there, you know, or rather they see it, but their brains edit the information, filling in any gaps with what experience has shown them in the past. I was comfortable in my office, or other people’s labs, observing, translating color, texture, light and shadow into shades of black on white. ![]() I suppose the students never think about where the drawings come from, and other people would be horrified if they thought about it, the nice, clean black and white as red and blue and purple, and the smell - but I liked it. I spent my days in a small office drawing whatever was put in front of me: bones, fossils. I never wondered what I would do for a living, just honed my skills in college, and walked straight into a job as a technical illustrator for a publisher producing academic textbooks. I really can’t remember learning to draw, to see things with my eyes and to put them on paper so others could see them too. I’m almost certain you won’t believe it - I wouldn’t have, if I hadn’t seen it - but if I tell you the way it started you might believe it enough to keep reading. I suppose I’d better begin at the beginning, because it’s a strange story. And now I need to tell someone else who can remember, or at least make sure that the information isn’t lost. That last bit’s not so good, is it? I used to read a lot of fiction, horror and stuff like that, and in those books the protagonist often says “I can’t remember when I first realized.” but this one won’t. How to write a letter asking someone I’ve never met to read something they won’t believe. I hope you think that’s a good opening line, because I’ve thought about it a lot. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Thomas Pepper 1523 South Dupont Avenue Minneapolis 55403 12 July, 2003 Dear Mr Cosgrove, I have some information I think might interest you. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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