glyphic messenger
ALT: ink drawing. stylized, calligraphic figure of a running being, carrying a spiral like a seashell or shield, their “head” is four apostrophes with lines above and below, and three exclamations like plumes on top. Decorative swirly things in brown and black border the sides of the page.
seabird
ALT: ink drawing, abstract, a duck or gull-like avian floating on water under a big red sun
another hole in the middle of everything
ALT: color pencil drawing, abstract. There’s a circle in the middle of the page (slightly off-center to the right) it’s reddish brown. Inside the circle is blue, with white scribbles, and light blue lines radiating out from the center, all the way to the edges of the page. Outside the circle are spinny lines that seem as if it’s rotating counter-clockwise. Soft bands of colors alternate: yellow, green, lilac, and blue.
a hole in the middle
ALT: ink drawing, abstract. Meditative noodling with spray bottle and various tools. The title refers to the white spot in nearly the exact center of the page, with pink shading around it that makes it readable as a hole or a nipple. So there are dark purple networks and masses that look like lichen-covered branches, and swirls and streaks of pink, yellow and a blue which on the original is more peacock than royal. I’m distressed that I wasn’t able to color-balance the scan to reproduce that.
plowing around potholes
ALT: graphite and ink drawing, referencing a photo from March 1987 National Geographic, an aerial view of a field with plow lines working around two potholes that are evidently wildlife conservation spots in N. Dakota. So, the potholes are two reddish spots surrounded by wide looping black bands of plowed field, and the whole is striated with straight fine lines.
message the cosmos
ALT: black and white graphite and ink drawing. abstract.A chain of ovals drift along the right side of the page. In the upper left there’s something that looks like a warped version of a snowman crossed with a caterpillar? It has stick-like appendages, and linked circles bigger on the bottom and smaller as they go up. In softer focus (graphite wash) in the background is a horizontal spiral and a vertical swoosh. Signals sent into space.
lives lived
ALT: ink and crayon drawing. abstract, in pink, peach and soft blue, with black lines, Five vertical sticks like branches float or lie, over softer swirling shapes that flow to a high horizon. there’s a pink dome like a huge rising sun on that horizon, and a few scribbly shapes way off in the distance that could be critters or beings of various kinds.
blooming red. plus my May ATC’s. all of a piece.
ALT: ink drawings, the central one is my usual 9″ x 12″ format paper, one central red flower on green foliage, with some more red petals peeking out. That drawing is flanked by six 2.5″ x 3.5″ cards with similar art. They all have 2 complete red flowers. Yes, it looks very much like poinsettias, in yule-tide color schemes, but let’s pretend they’re more like tulips so they can be spring-seasonal.
primordial soup
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. On a speckled ground of pinkish-orange fading up to a warm ochre-ish yellow, a bunch of little creatures are swimming around. There are seven green ones that have long tentacles like octopods or some kind of starfish. Then some assorted ones that look more like bugs or plankton. There’s a white “O” and a white chunky star, for no particular reason other than being part of the soup. Winding between and around are chains of imaginary writing.
joyful defiance
ALT: ink drawing of two flowers standing under a yellow sun. The flowers have spiky radiating petals around central clusters of little circles. The sun has a red spiral on it, and also radiates spiky lines. The whole thing is in primary colors )red, yellow and blue) with a bit of green for one of the flower’s stem and a few extra leaves.
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