Slate Photo Illustration – On Consolation

2018

https://slate.com/culture/2018/09/brian-dillon-essayism-on-consolation-barthes.html

I had a few of the first paragraphs to work from for this piece and what came to mind was the idea of home and books and feeling trapped and free. The first line of the piece stuck with me as something immediately visual,  “I grew up, as people say, in a house of books.”