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A Portrait of the Artist as His (or Her) Own Words


Grace Paley as Debts by John Sokol.  Image via artist's website.

Grace Paley as "Debts" by John Sokol. Image via artist's website.

Artist and author John Sokol creates portraits of artists out of lines from their own works. Here’s another of his stunning “word portraits”—this is William Faulkner as The Sound and The Fury:

William Faulkner as *The Sound and the Fury*, by John Sokol.  Image via artists website.

William Faulkner as *The Sound and the Fury*, by John Sokol. Image via artist's website.

Visit Sokol’s Facebook page to see more of his portraits, and should you wish to buy one to inspire you at your writing desk, they’re for sale on his website.

(Via Flavorwire.)


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