Everything You Can Imagine Is Real

Justin Ahrens · 2014 · Illustration / Digital print

A Picasso quote rendered as a bestiary. Each letter in IMAGINE becomes a creature, a one-eyed cyclops, a shaggy ape, a toothy dragon, a finned whale, a tentacled squid, a coiled serpent, a beaked dodo, hand-illustrated on a chalkboard-green field flecked with leaves, twigs, and bubbles. Brushed display lettering above and below frames the menagerie: 'EVERYTHING YOU CAN' / 'IS REAL.' Whimsical without being precious; the texture, the imperfect strokes, and the inventive character design carry the wonder the quote demands.

Everything you can imagine is real.Pablo Picasso

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