There was an article in this morning’s paper about Matthew Klein, a NYC police sketch artist. They referred to his his occupation as a throwback trade but went on to detail cases where his sketches were instrumental in solving the crime. There are only a hundred full time forensic artists left in the United States.
One of them is Suzanne Birdwell from the Texas State Police. She says, “Forensic art is not about creating something beautiful; it’s about documenting an intangible piece of evidence. When we start a project we have no idea what we’re drawing. And we never know it’s right. Imagine drawing something you have never seen before.” I like that.
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