Day's Work, Night's Rest

Day's Work, Night's Rest, originally uploaded by trexfiles23.

This is the other piece of artwork I see every day. It's a page from
Jeff Nicholson's classic Eisner nominated "Day's Work, NIght's Rest" in The Dreaming #15.

I've been asked what it is about this page that makes it so iconic to me. After all, I'm a professor & lawyer--haven't worked an honest day in my life, at least since high school.

One could, I guess, look at it as a means of connecting with my past, hundreds of years of drechslers--"lathe-turners", craftsmen--who, as one law professor from Germany once aptly observed, no doubt shaped my fascination with design.

That's probably right, except it goes a bit deeper. I look at photos of the stars and see the constant churning of creation--connection, destruction, transformation, the new--and I can't help but draw a line between that and less overtly physical work. It's all of a piece, really; our minds draw their power from the cosmic furnace giving rise to infinite varieties of form.

At least I like to think so, anyway, in part with the daily reminder provided by this page.


CORPORATE COMICS EXTRA:

Click here for the pages leading up to this one.

Nicholson is also the writer/artist of Through the Habitrails, an equally trenchant and surreal look at corporate identity.