Han Ong

And also a fellow understanding of the Pierce transgression could so easily be yours that you are basically in the same boat.

So by offering him succor and shelter, you are sort of holding one up for the team.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's part of the compact of being a good fellow, a good sort of artist peer.

So that's another model of how an artist should be in this day and age, which heartens me when I come across it in this story.

I wouldn't know how to answer that because from how the drawings are described, they could be or couldn't be.

I think you probably would need to judge how skilled the artist's hand is.

You know, for me, the equivalent would be someone like an Ai Weiwei.

And I'm thinking in particular about Ai Weiwei's series of middle finger photographs where he photographs in the foreground his own middle finger posed right in front of these monuments of Chinese history.

So I think it could be very flat and one note.

The critique could be very, very easy and simple.

And it might be one of those artworks where...

You don't need to go back for a second viewing.

You get it in one look, you know?

Yeah, I take your point, Deborah.

The move from cartoons to still lives and then to portraiture, you know, yes, I see your point.

Just masterful, masterful physical descriptions.

I mean I see them so vividly.