Illustrate Harry Crews’ memoir, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for use as a book cover. “Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn’t have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks.” –Harry Crews (1935-2012)

"I know what it's like to have people look at you and [have] their face mirror your own rather dreadful circumstances. That is to say, your freakishness,"–Harry Crews. The digital painting investigates Crews' mean childhood growing up on a tenant farm during the Great Depression, including disfigurement due to polio and other horrors.