Murugiah

The scratchy style

It's beautiful work.

He's just capturing life, reflecting it back and presenting it to the world in his work.

He also happened to have collaborated with Roald Dahl on a series of books that captured the imaginations of many kids, right?

So it's this combined thing of commercial projects with very personal work as well.

So it's a mixture of everything.

When it comes to comparing Quentin to robots, yeah, I don't know.

I'm sure a robot or an AI could replicate the style, but it can't make those intuitive decisions that make the work human.

It's something that's very hard to explain.

You'd have to ask someone, a random person, and compare a Quentin Blake imitation drawing made by an AI generator versus an original tactile Quentin Blake painting, and you could see the difference immediately, and you'd present that to a human being and they would be able to tell you, but

The way they'd be able to tell you is that this one feels different.

Working with the artistic director, Olivia Ahmed, and her team gave me nothing but support and joy and pride in the work, proudness in the work.

I know nothing about curating a show, right?

So I just wanted to put as much work as possible because I have this South Asian mentality of more is better.

Try to prove yourself, all this.

And the folks at the Quentin Blake Center were saying, no, we chose you because these pieces of work...

stand on their own.

They mean something.

We want visitors to stand in front of each piece of your work and contemplate it and take it in.

And that gave me a lot of confidence when they said that.