Friday, March 24, 2006
For a day that ended with a warm hug and a pleastant boozy sleep, it started out as pure horror. The minute Art woke up on that day his stomach was tied up in a knot so large that it seemed simply to replace his stomach. The sad reality was that Art had woke up this way for months now. It had a familiar pattern. He'd try desperately to fall asleep (not a good start), would move to punching his pillow, and then eventually he'd simply grab a t-shirt and squeeze it in his right fist until sleep did its work. Or at least tried to. The dream train was blowing through Art's mind so loudly that sleep always seemed a distant second. The nightmarish images of distorted faces, superloud yelling, bites, and of course, the cackle of her laughter. The sun was bright on this morning, and Art kidded to himself that things might be looking up. He was right, but he'd said this on countless occasions before. And on all of those occassions he was wrong. Unhinged. Manic. The sort of ride that if you aren't on it, you don't understand it. The kind of ride where, at the end, you get such a good picture of yourself that religious thoughts squat the brain. And so when he bumped into a vision later that night, a vision he'd met before at a bus stop, she saw him on that day and not the days previous. She saw three important things: the knot, the sunshine, and a promise. His boozy sleep was solo, but the t-shirt was on the floor and the dream he didn't remember had something to do with soda pop and french fries. The warm hug moved to his lips and if you were looking at Art that night, you'd almost see his eyes smiling behind his closed lids.
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Antony Hare is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in publications including Esquire UK, Maisonneuve, Forbes, Annabelle Mann, The Improper Bostonian, Bon Appétit, the Globe and Mail, and National Post (for which he won a Silver Medal from the Society of News Design). His work is at the meeting point between portraiture and caricature. Antony is a member of the Society of Illustrators and works from his office in downtown Toronto. ¶ Learn more about Antony.
Siteway was launched in 1996. It is Antony Hare's personal web site and is affiliated only with him. It contains his gallery of illustrations and blog since 2000. His illustrations are available for sale and for licensing in film and advertising. Siteway World is Siteway, Phelts, Tonicville, and Coastalmatic. Siteway is updated every week, usually Tuesday, with a new feature illustration.
