{"id":182,"date":"2009-05-27T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/05\/27\/away-from-here\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:46:01","slug":"away-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/05\/27\/away-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"AWAY FROM HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Unveiled \u2014 here\u2019s my cover illustration for this September\u2019s issue of ASIMOV\u2019S SCIENCE FICTION<\/a>. It\u2019s based on the issue\u2019s lead story, Lisa Goldstein\u2019s \u201cAway From Here.\u201d She was recently a Nebula Award finalist, and her new story is terrific. It\u2019s about hotels, wanderlust, and passing strangers.\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>A quirk in the story (no spoilers) inspired not only the subject, but also my compositional solution. A bit of art history: Coles Phillips<\/a> was a popular American illustrator of the 1910\u2019s and 20\u2019s. His work was all the rage in advertising. He\u2019s famous for his \u201cFadeaway Lady\u201d illustrations (see left) where he juxtaposed foreground and background elements of the same color. The results caused readers to look twice and complete the pictures with their imaginations.<\/p>\n

It was fun to see how much I could subtract from an image and still have it \u201cread.\u201d Thanks to art director Victoria Green for the encouragement, and to La Julia and Traci for helping me find magic where others might only find the mundane.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unveiled \u2014 here\u2019s my cover illustration for this September\u2019s issue of ASIMOV\u2019S SCIENCE FICTION. It\u2019s based on the issue\u2019s lead story, Lisa Goldstein\u2019s \u201cAway From Here.\u201d She was recently a Nebula Award finalist, and her new story is terrific. It\u2019s about hotels, wanderlust, and passing strangers. A quirk in the story (no spoilers) inspired not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/AWAY524lowres.jpg?fit=675%2C999","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-2W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}