His small, intensely observed scenes, embedded in plaster, are like quirky reliquaries of the imagination.
Yet these early works are thrilling thinly painted, intensely observed, sometimes surrealist and often awkward.
Written seemingly out of life, these books are beautiful, intensely observed, yet static and inconsequential – more mood pieces than novels.
It includes traditionalist works like Graydon Parrish's French Academy-style funeral allegory and Christopher Gallego's large, intensely observed paintings of studio interiors.
Its early pages are full of intensely observed sensory details, filtered through the consciousness of its central character, 23-year-old Anna Levin.
Even though he measures his words carefully and guards his public displays of emotion, Willingham seems comfortable in one of the most intensely observed jobs in sports.
The story of an Irish family, it is the kind of book that refuses quick characterization: it is sprawling and intimate, anguished and hopeful, elliptical and intensely observed.
This fall, Nazraeli Press published "Neco" ("cat" in Japanese), an intensely observed and beautifully designed book that aims to capture the essence of the feline.
The Harvard academic Maria Tatar has observed wisely that children do not usually "identify" with fictional children – they stand a little apart inside the fictional world and intensely observe the people and the action.
It shifts, too, back and forth from an abstract fable of Everyman to the very particular story of this one man, and from the nowhere seas of myth to intensely observed waters off the coast of Wales.
