“Creativity” and “strategy” seem to be contradictory terms to me—to be creative requires being open to what may come, while being strategic seems to be a matter of figuring out how to manipulate events to produce a desired result, so I don’t think there can be a creative strategy.

This poster was created for the fifth anniversary of the Bay Street Theater. The idea of the hand came to me right away and I did lots of drawings of hands combining faces. None of them were satisfactory until I simply made a line from the hand representing an arm and drew the clown. The thing that makes this poster appealing and unique for me are the elements of surprise, humor, and mystery.