What It Is by Lynda Barry

Bits of pictures, taken from my personal copy of  "What It Is" by cartoonist and author Lynda Barry. I took pictures of some pages which have my favorite quotes/sayings in it ;)

"To follow a wondering mind means having to get lost. Can you stand being lost?"

"What is an experience? Is it something you have? Or something which has you?"

"An image is a place. Not a picture of a place, but a place in and of itself. You can move in it. It seems not invented, but there for you to find."

"What, where is a story before it becomes words?"

"Where is a story after it becomes words?"

"What is movement? Do thoughts move? When people are trying to remember something, they often tap their fingers or touch their foreheads, Why does this kind of motion help us remember?"

"Time + place are always together. Why?"

WHAT IT IS
by Lynda Barry

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Isdemonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry’s first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: “The ordinary is extraordinary.”

(taken from goodreads.com)


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