Once again, Robbi has produced an illustration so lovely and compelling that I bristle at the thought of parting with it. And yet, here it is, this week’s auction item. I cannot convince her to post some other image in its place.

subterranean

This illustration makes me think of the things we think about but do not say, the things we feel but do not express. It also makes me think about all the miles of rocks and dirt and train tracks beneath our feet, which I find interesting but also a little bit unnerving.

If, like me, you would like to possess this illustration and hang it on your wall, click here to join the bidding frenzy.

If you are joining us from Illustration Friday and want to learn more about Idiots’Books (the small press for which Robbi is the one and only illustrator), click here. To see past auction items (and weep bitterly that someone else now owns them), click here.