Spoken Editions

This is the story of how Sarah Maycock, the art student, painted herself into her future and became Sarah Maycock, the artist. For her final project at Kingston University, where Maycock studied animation and illustration in the UK, she created a book that included both illustrations and written narrative with the simple, repetitive syntax of a classic children’s story. Titled Human (adj.), the work looks unassuming, but it has all the complexity of a philosophical essay designed to unseat clichés and overturn overused similes like “as big as a bear.” When asked about the inspiration behind the story, the British artist explained that you might be “as big as a bear….But there’s always someone bigger than you. Everything has two sides, and neither is necessarily right. There’s a gray area.”