IN-0001

Subject reports that something behind him will not let him stop working. He describes it as aching, gnawing, and patient. It does not appear when he is idle. It appears when he decides to remain idle, and it stays until he has produced something. He has produced continuously for as long as he can recall and does not consider this a complaint.

The subject sought formal training at Kendall College of Art and Design and completed a degree in illustration, which the presence regarded as insufficient. It required him to combine dimensional modelling with traditional technique until the result could not be cleanly classified as either. Reviewers describe the outcome as immediately recognisable and difficult to name. The subject calls it stylised realism. The file notes that this is a description of a symptom, not a method.

He is surrounded by people who tell him the truth about his work. He has named this as the reason his standards continue to rise and his life continues to get harder. The presence has not been observed to disagree.

His output includes numerous publications and a great many covers for other people's fiction. His own recovery work — the illustrated novella Entropy, and the store filed after it — is ongoing. Sleep has been reduced. The subject does not present this as a warning.