| My illustration of this beautiful girl with a knife was created when DIF Magazine asked me to make an Illustration to go along with the psychological test: "How crazy are you.” Before I created this piece, I sat in front of a mirror and tried to take a pose that most clearly expressed craziness for me. So, I started thinking about the people and the things in my life that nearly drive me crazy and promptly jumped up to get a big knife from the kitchen. The image that I saw in front of me was the moment just before you take action—that second in which you are wracking your brain with all the possible solutions for your emotional distress. At that moment, you know you are capable of anything. |  |
I’m JAC
My illustration of this beautiful girl with a knife was created when DIF Magazine asked me to make an Illustration to go along with the psychological test: "How crazy are you.” Before I created this piece, I sat in front of a mirror and tried to take a pose that most clearly expressed craziness for me. So, I started thinking about the people and the things in my life that nearly drive me crazy and promptly jumped up to get a big knife from the kitchen. The image that I saw in front of me was the moment just before you take action—that second in which you are wracking your brain with all the possible solutions for your emotional distress. At that moment, you know you are capable of anything.
My other, similarly themed illustration was one that never got published in BLVD Magazine, which had originally commissioned it. “Too terrifying for the readers,” they said. I then made another illustration for them to replace this one and they e-mailed me back an article about honor and revenge. The story was about a girl murdered by her brother since, in his eyes, she brought shame on their family.
I wanted to show the beauty of a young girl, her body naked and vulnerable and wrapped in an old coat as if she had just taken it to cover her body for her brother when she got caught sleeping with the man she loved.
The inside of the coat had to be red satin in order to represent the love and passion experienced just before the disaster, and alongside her body white and dead. I picked the moment after the anger, hoping maybe somebody would realize how it would feel after you have killed your sister our daughter in preventing her from such actions.
