“The point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.”
— Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook
The notebook is the first place where ideas and dreams find refuge — in the middle of the night, on a bus, or at any moment of the day.
These drawings are the rawest expressions of Fanny’s mind, the place where everything begins. It is the source, the matrix from which all her work emerges.
