
come on tie my shoe, silver plate.
ALT: ink drawing, cartoonish. A person dressed in red, with a rather scary little green face is kicking up or leaning over with one hand reaching toward one foot uplifted, and not quite reaching it.

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.

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.