Marcie and Giraffe

Marcie’s pleasure in painting Giraffe changes when she sees the picture Giraffe has made of her. Her belief that Giraffe’s art is better turns a shared activity into a source of frustration, expressed through a series of fierce, scribbly pictures. That shift gives the story two connected subjects: the difficulty of comparing your work with a friend’s, and the possibility of putting a feeling into art before you know how to talk about it. The friendship keeps the question of making art together in view, while the illustrations accompany Marcie’s changing feelings.