Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.
The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.
When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one side of a plate, and then there's one on the other. It seems like a couple and a singleton. It seems obvious to me!
I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.
I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.
I guess the anthropomorphising is something I've done all my life.