Category Archives: ink

14 May 2025

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.

13 May 2025

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.

12 May 2025

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.