"I suppose Tommy wasn’t used to being disturbed during his rages, because his first response when I came up to him was to stare at me for a second, then carry on as before. It was like he was doing Shakespeare and I’d come up onto the stage in the middle of his performance."
Excerpt of the book "Never Let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. This was my submission for the Folio Book Illustration Award 2026 depicting the passage of the novel that appears above.
My submission wasn't selected at the end.
May 2026
TIMELAPSE
ALTERNATE VERSION
In this first version of the illustration, the action and interaction between Tommy and Kathy H. didn't fully convinced me, so I reworked the poses, make them face the spectator to create a more direct bond to the action, even though the main visual element in the composition, always was planned to be Hailsham.