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.
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.
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.
some good doggy
ALT: Water-soluble crayon. portrait-style head of a hound dog with tongue hanging out. It’s kind of abstracted, and I definitely did not have a specific dog in mind.
hold your fire
ALT: water soluble crayon drawing, abstract. There’s a shape like a bent bow with the string pulled to outside the left edge of the picture, but not really any apparent arrow. Also, the stylized, calligraphic shape that might be a person is not in the correct orientation to even be pulling the bowstring. So I’m not sure what the heck is going on there, but the shapes seemed to call to each other for me.
just stepping out for a moment
ALT: ink doodle of some creature with a big head, pointy ears, and a tail like a cow. They are wearing a polka dot skirt of sorts, and shoes with the laces properly tied. They have rosy cheeks that match the skirt’s dots. They are shown in profile, no apparent arms, but one leg outstretched as if to leave the picture.
a moment of pointed serenity
ALT: ink and crayon drawing. Three chicory-blue flowers with pointy petals stand in a group among stems and leaves. There’s a little snail on a leaf. The background is plain washes of pale peach and blues.
It’s spring and all, but also I recently heard that someone in my pub-sing community is very ill, and he has a humorous song about rabbits that he occasionally trots out. He’s been on my mind and maybe it’s showing.
ALT: water-soluble crayon and graphite drawing of a rabbit among leaves and grasses, looking poised to take off. There’s something that could be a stone or an egg sitting right behind it.
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