A Brief Note on Visual Media

The book's words are complemented by two types of visual media, each chosen to highlight distinct facets of curiosity's mode of being. First, we precede each chapter with a frontispiece created by artist and illustrator Poonam Mistry, emphasizing key concepts in masterfully crafted visual form. Poonam's style incorporates her love of nature, and explores the relationships between patterns, shapes, and colors, creating beautifully intricate illustrations. Her clients include the Commonwealth Education Trust, Amnesty International, American Express, BP Oil, Michael O'Mara Books, Buster Books, Lantana Publishing, Tate Publishing, and Penguin Random House. Well-crafted illustrations that are shaped slowly over long periods serve to foreground the timeless nature of curiosity, and the expanse of questions that burn within us for weeks, months, years, and decades. Such illustrations also foreground the curiosity that leads us to build expertise and to hone a craft.