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Nicole Ray, an Ann Arbor-based illustrator, makes cheerful, quirky drawings often inspired by words: song lyrics, a funny phrase overheard in a passing conversation, poetry, a newspaper article, fairy tales. She focuses on line work and unusual combinations of unlikely pairs: a giraffe in roller skates, a fish dropping from the sky on a balloon, hair that turns into a river.

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