Yuah Psy

My cover illustration for "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato"

I was lucky enough to be contacted by Mateo Duque, one of the editors for the book, and we had a really exciting collaboration to come up with this cover image.

In the sky we have the symbolism for Platos "platonic solids" (polyhedra with identical faces) and Socrates is having a dialogue with Phaedrus under a plane tree alongside the Ilissos river. In the distance is the Acropolis of Athens with a swan in flight, a bird that was associated with Apollo and Plato associated the swan with himself, saying that the swan sang most beautifully nearest death.

This was a dream commission. I hope to get more projects like this in the future. What an honor to do a Plato cover for such a respected publishing company like Bloomsbury!🙌😁🤟❤ a true high point of my illustration career thus far.