Creating visuals for abstract ideas with the public domain, fair use, Creative Commons and zero artistic talent.
![A vintage illustration depicting Ida Tarbell chopping down a tree from which an irate John D Rockefeller shouts at her.](https://i0.wp.com/pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/7f2fb-041vtciruqirxmt-r.jpeg?w=840&ssl=1)
Back when we were inventing blogging, most posts did not have illustration, which was good for me, since I can’t draw so much as a stick figure, and there was precious little in the way of public domain or otherwise freely reusable stock art.