How could anyone ever portray a figure so larger than life than Gilbert? For this image I wanted to center on the inherent paradoxes that this man was so fond of: the cerebral imagination, the natural law of fairies, the freedom of dogma, and of course, the unbound mirth available to this suffering world.

I want to let the image do the talking, but I wanted to impart one quote of Chesterton’s that has always meant a lot to me: “If a man saw the world upside down, with all the trees and towers hanging head downwards as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasise the idea of dependence.”
 
Commissioned by Erik Beck on behalf of Kent Reister.