Two Looks to Home: The Art of Tommy Simpson

I did not see any other works by this Artist before, but I was thrilled by the cover. The book is interesting, the Art sure is unique and creative, but mostly it is just similar chairs (as on the cover), clocks and abstract (very abstract) paintings. I guess, I just was expecting more diversity of the pieces, but that was just my own wrong judgement.

This is an inspiring and delightful book that not only lays out how one's outer world gets to be the inner one, it then goes on to demonstrate all the wonderful ways that inner world can be expessed visually. Tommy Simpson is an artist of great visual wit, whose work is clearly 'love made manifest'. I loved reading his stories of growing up in Dundee, Illinois, in the late 1940's and 1950's. He really presents the texture and taste of childhood, the sounds and smells of it and, it is not hard to see that these viseral memories are the ones that inspire and compell his search for ways to share that atmosphere with others through his work. This is a book that, although written for adults, is wonderful to share with children, especially those that are begining to wander down the roads in their imaginations that will, if they are encouraged to follow their inclinations, take them "two looks to home".