AN INVESTIGATION INTO HUMAN POTENTIAL...
BEFORE I MADE MASTERPIECES...
I MADE THIS.
There wasn't.
The anatomy was wrong.
The proportions were wrong.
Even the word HULK somehow went wrong.
But I kept drawing.
And without knowing it, I had begun an experiment that would consume thousands of hours of my life.
I would draw something.
Look at what wasn't working.
Correct it.
Try again.
Then do it again.
And again.
Year after year, the drawings changed.
But something else was changing with them.
I was.
My eyes began seeing things they couldn't see before.
My hands became capable of things they couldn't do before.
Problems that once stopped me became problems I knew how to solve.
And eventually...
...the same human being who drew that... DREW THIS.
Masterpiece Collection
THESE TWO DRAWINGS WERE MADE BY THE SAME HAND.
Look at them again. Because the distance between these two drawings is the subject of this collection.
Not talent.
Not perfection.
Potential.
More specifically, what happens to potential when a human being enters a continuous cycle of creation, observation, correction and creation again. I didn't become capable of the second drawing before I began.
I became capable by making what came before it. And that's why I preserved more than the finished masterpieces.
I preserved the making of them.
The imperfect beginnings.
The intermediate states.
The moments when something wasn't working yet.
Because viewed together, they reveal something the finished work alone cannot...
A masterpiece doesn't simply show you what someone can do.
Its making shows you what someone can become.
That is the idea behind this collection.
And as you move through it, I invite you to consider a question that has become far more interesting to me than how far I could take a pencil:
What have you become capable of ...that you once weren't?
INTRODUCING The dreamscape series
THE FINISHED MASTERPIECE HIDES SOMETHING FROM YOU.
Look at a finished piece long enough and something strange happens.
It begins to feel inevitable.
As though the artist always knew where every line belonged.
As though the image simply appeared that way.
It didn't.
Before this drawing became what you're looking at now, it looked like this:
Then this...
