It’s not by chance that another version of this head can be found on the starting page of Creative Creatures. While in the other version—a ballpoint pen drawing in blue and black—the head is lacking its skullcap, its lid if you will, I changed that for the small version on my starting page. When I had scanned the paper sketch I was determined to create a completely hybrid work, inseparably intertwining the work on paper with the parts done with the PC with the same drawing technique, so that in the end a complete skull would result, preserving its original character and at the same time creating a new whole. As much of a grey bony skull as this head may be, I always see it as an essentially calm and friendly figure, as grotesque as it is relaxed, with sadness and pain in the back of the head, and contradictions between its ears, as well. But all in all it is laidback and looking forward. The minimal use of color is well embedded in the structured grey of the background, so no further visual relations need to be created.