Matt Kish Archives - Illustration: June 2020

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 039

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 30, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 038

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 30, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 037

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 30, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 036

7 x 5 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 29, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 035

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 29, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 034

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 28, 2016
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Monday, June 29, 2020

QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 033

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 28, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 032

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 28, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 031

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 28, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 030

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 27, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 029

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 24, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 028

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 24, 2016
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 027

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 23, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 026

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 23, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 025

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 22, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 024

7 x 5 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 22, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 023

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 21, 2016
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QUEEQUEG ETERNAL AGAIN: Queequeg 022

7 x 5 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 21, 2016
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Saturday, June 27, 2020

COSMICOMICS: The Other Eurydice

“Even now hardly anyone still remembers what we meant by making the Earth live: not what you imagine, content with your dustcloud life set down on the border between water, earth and air. I wanted life to expand outwards from the centre of the Earth, to spread upwards through its concentric spheres, to circulate around its metals, liquid and solid. Such was Pluto’s dream. It was the only way the Earth might have become an enormous living organism, the only way we could have avoided that condition of precarious exile to which life has been forcibly reduced, the dull weight of an inanimate ball of stone beneath, and above, the void.”

9 x 9 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
August 30, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: World Memory

“If there is nothing that needs correcting in the world memory, the only thing left to do is correct reality where it doesn’t agree with that memory. Just as I cancelled the existence of my wife’s lover from the punch cards, so I must cancel him from the world of the living. Which is why I am now pulling out my gun and pointing it at you, Müller, why I’m squeezing the trigger, killing you.”

8 x 10 inches
ink and watercolor paint on watercolor paper
August 23, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: As Long as the Sun Lasts

“I seem to see him, alone in the void, as he travels through the expanse of light-years, but still quarreling with his wife. That ‘I told you so’ and ‘brilliant discovery’ that accompanied the birth of stars, the movement of galaxies, the cooling of planets, that ‘you’ll be happy now’ and ‘that’s all you ever say’ that marked every episode and phase and explosion of their quarrels and of heavenly cataclysms, that ‘you always think you’re right’ and ‘it’s because you never listen to me’ without which the history of the universe would not have for him any name or memory or flavour, that eternal conjugal bickering: if ever it should one day come to an end, what a feeling of desolation, what emptiness!”

11 x 15 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
July 12, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: The Daughters of the Moon

“I say a moon, even though it did not resemble a moon any more than the one we had seen plunge into the depths a few moments before: however, this new moon had a very different way of being different. It emerged from the sea dripping a trail of green, glistening seaweed; spouts of water gushed in fountains from fields that lent it the sheen of an emerald. A steamy jungle covered it, but not with plants. This covering seemed to be made of peacock feathers, full of eyes and shimmering colors.”

14 x 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
June 21, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: The Night Driver

“I climbed into the car suddenly, after a quarrel over the telephone with Y. I live in A, Y lives in B. I wasn’t planning to visit her this evening. But during our daily phone call we said dire things to each other; in the end, carried away by my exasperation, I told Y that I wanted to break off our affair; Y answered that it didn’t matter to her and that she would immediately telephone Z, my rival.”

11 x 14 inches
ink on watercolor paper
May 31, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: Priscilla III: Death

“The circuit of vital information that runs from the nucleic acids to writing is prolonged in the punched tapes of the automata, children of other automata: generations of machines, perhaps better than we, will go on living and speaking lives and words that were also ours; and translated into electronic instructions, the word “I” and the word “Priscilla” will meet again.”

9 x 12 inches
ink on watercolor paper
May 10, 2016
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Friday, June 26, 2020

COSMICOMICS: Blood, Sea

“Because from the moment when blood becomes ‘our blood,’ the relationship between us and blood changes, that is, what counts is the blood insofar as it is ‘ours,’ and all the rest, us included, counts less.”

14 x 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
April 18, 2016
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COSMICOMICS: The Soft Moon

“According to this theory, the Moon originally was a planet gravitating around the Sun, until the moment when the nearness of the Earth caused it to be derailed from its orbit. Captured by terrestrial gravity, the Moon moved closer and closer, contracting its orbit around us. At a certain moment the reciprocal attraction began to alter the surface of the two celestial bodies, raising very high waves from which fragments were detached and sent spinning in space, between Earth and Moon, especially fragments of lunar matter which finally fell upon Earth. Later, through the influence of our tides, the Moon was impelled to move away again, until it reached its present orbit. But a part of the lunar mass, perhaps half of it, had remained on Earth, forming the continents.”

14 x 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
March 29, 2016
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