we admire the spring
ALT: ink drawing, black lines with some loose color washes. There’s a tall thin vase with two daffodils and some kind of blue flower looking quite jaunty. From the left edge of the picture peers what could be three faces, or maybe they’re just more weird flowers. The vase is flanked by two vertical strips of imaginary writing that looks like it’s trying to be Japanese calligraphy but giving up and melting when it reaches the bottom.
tidal shift
ALT: abstract ink painting. blue, green and magenta swirling lines, and some red starry spots around the upper left part of the shapes. there’s a lot of flowing motion, generally between lower left and upper right, and a feeling of liquid flow. Oh, it also somehow reminds me of a scarab beetle. maybe just the colors.
to rest
ALT: calligraphic doodle that could be read as a sleeping person on, or floating above, a soft surface, gently rolling hills on the horizon and a red spiral of sun behind clouds setting on the left side of the picture.
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.
hard time waking up
ALT: Ink drawing in blue lines with red and yellow background. You might see it as a being of some sort propped up in bed looking very grumpy and disheveled. There’s definitely a sort of eye, and spiky hair. Goodness knows what the rest of it is all about. Lots of dots and squiggles.
dancing willows, sway and bend
ALT: ink drawing showing two willow shoots cavorting in front of two egg-shaped, sky-colored openings in a dark purple ground. One of the shoots has just 3 leaves, and exposed roots, the other coming up from below has all of 5 leaves, and you can’t tell if it’s in the earth or not. Oh, and there’s something like a full moon in the upper sky-hole.
my ah-ther-itis is acting up
ALT: ink drawing mostly in blues and purple, of an angular figure with red anger spots in the hips and knees, and lots of slashing exclamatory lines. pale gray letters near the head say ow ow ow ow. Hands are on face, eyes are big and hair is standing straight up. Sigh. Yes, I took an advil, and slept pretty well after all. And I don’t like to complain, but pain really does suck.
choose your weapons carefully
ALT: ink painting. A gray mountain under a dark purple-blue sky with polkadot stars. And also one big yellow poorly drawn star and a round yellow and red thing that I guess could be a moon. For some reason there’s a sort of vase on top of the mountain, empty but with a coupld of flowers drawn on it that are shedding petals. Under the mountain sits a creature with antennas and claws and snake-like eyes. It’s grasping a thing that looks like an old rooftop antenna. there are a bunch of little red triangles floating around it. I don’t know, that’s just how it came out.
wake up. it’s spring.
ALT – ink painting of two bulbous roots with faces that look sleepy or surly. The one in front also has a hand for some reason, and it’s reaching toward a mushroom. Both of the plant folk have leaves coming up out of their heads like plumes of hair. There’s a blue and gray sky above, and they’re imbedded in earth that has scribbles in it that I guess stand in for the compost and other dirt critters.
birthday blues
ALT: acrylic painting of an orange vase with a sad face on it, holding some wilting flowers that seem to have already shed some petals. The background has a light blue orb, I have no idea what that’s about, maybe a window or clear open space. Around the bottom, left, and top edges is a bunch of calligraphic writing in an imaginary alphabet.
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