I’m about to head out for a long weekend stay in unheated space, with the forecast being rainy and temps in the 30’s and 40s (fahrenheit). I may not make any art! The challenge of staying warm and dry might just be enough for now.
spare thoughts for the homeless, for people whose dwellings and towns have been bombed, for people who are losing any sense of security.
gratitude that I will (insh’allah) be returning to loving family and warm, dry housing at the end of the trip.
ALT: graphite and crayon drawing, really not much more than a scribble. I think it looks like a rather over-dramatic heron creature, emoting about their personal difficulties.
ALT: crayon drawing, abstract, in gold and red. These are shapes I like to draw. This looks to me like a portrait of an insect, with curly antennae and a red cape.
ALT: ink and graphite drawing, abstracted bust of someone with a smooth face like a shield, plumes on their head, from the side view they are looking over their shoulder, past you. In reds and dark purple. the shoulder also seems armored, and maybe a large metal ear ornament.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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