‘My life is weird’: the court artist who drew Ghislaine Maxwell drawing her back

For Jane Rosenberg, a professional courtroom artist who has covered four decades of notorious trials, her viral sketch of Maxwell is just part of a strange and fascinating job

Pastel drawings don't typically go viral on the internet. But this month, thousands of Twitter users were mesmerized by a courtroom artist's sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell - the alleged sex-trafficking accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein - staring at the artist and sketching back.

Twitter users were disturbed. I thought this was funny at first but it's starting to haunt me," one person wrote. Others commented on the picture's bizarre, recursive quality - reminiscent of MC Escher's drawing of hands drawing hands, and raising the possibility of some kind of infinite loop. Was Maxwell trolling us? Or sending the artist an ominous message?