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ERIC HANSON: NYT LETTERS

June 17, 2011

Eric Hanson packs a lot of gesture and thought into the simplest of drawings.  His black and white spot for the Letters column of today’s New York Times attacks the topic of congressional gridlock, two political parties unable to compromise. Below is the final, followed by several subtle variations.

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“To underline the nature of the confrontation I thought of overlaying the word NO in a gray tone,” says Eric. “I wondered whether it added nuance or unhelpful complexity. Did it distract? The point of this small illustration in the letters column isn't to make readers stop and make sense of it but to make them read the adjacent letters. We left the word NO out.”

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