FINAL. The author had put the image of an albatross into my head, and when I stumbled across this drawing by Stephanie Grogan, another young artist in Australia, I knew I was moving in the right direction. The image blended the human and the animal, and was a bit surreal. I pulled the colour from the girl’s dress for the background, and went with a minimal palette and large, clean text in order to let the girl be the focus, while also becoming almost part of the background. The elaborate ampersand made its return, although in a different typeface, to offer some balance.

From the June 2014 print edition