Publisher's Synopsis
Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson's intuitive works-inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts-are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and what it is to be human.
It's here, amongst animal imagery and Jungian psychological concepts, that the viewer can, if not careful, become lost in a collection of unsettling yet playful art: themes of loss, fear and euphoria are materially manifested through felt pen and pencil crayon. Within these works of art are scraps of consciousness, demons brought into the light of day and shared as if to say, clearly: you are not alone.
Praise for Try Not to Get Too Attached:"Try Not to Get Too Attached is an incredibly haunting self-portrait, the visual record of one artist's journey into the psyche's frayed and messy reaches, where "everything is so vivid," as she puts it. I keep originals of Robin Richardson's art on my walls to remind me of that vividness every day, whether it comes in the form of beauty or terror or something else altogether." -Alessandro Porco
"Robin Richardson's beautiful, surreal drawings are both calming to the senses, yet haunting, almost transcendental. The text she employs adds to the sublime, perhaps as otherworldly ads, slogans, or even medieval logos on acid. This collection of her art is like discovering a lost treasure. I love them and can't stop looking at them!" -Gary Taxali
