“I hope you jump in rain puddles.”

The illustrations for this week’s cover story in Phoenix New Times (my day job) are really remarkable.

The story is about mental health care in Arizona (or lack thereof) and the dangerous idea of hindsight, following a huge tragedy. Our art director started playing with the notions of Rorschach tests and optical illusions.

Here’s an interview with the artist, Kyle Webster, (you can see all the images, too) who talks about his initial trepidation in doing illustrations on this topic and how his own young child influenced this art.