You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youโre like an immigrant to your own world. You donโt have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
Shaun TanSo you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.
Shaun Tan