Drawing Seven:
Notes -
Well, i made another picture and i really like this one.
after i finished it i felt ... satiated ... and ... well... relaxed and good
it was so much fun to draw
and color
i am calling it
Whoa Nellie! That might hurt!
and there does seem to be a definite theme emerging
and recurring images
and i do think there is a story line
the images in my head have relaxed a bit now
i am not sure just what i will do next
but i am getting a small kernel of an idea
i just don't want to get stuck in the "story" idea
and so i am studiously avoiding thinking about what i might draw tonight
maybe i will take a shower
and do some yoga
... uh did i actually say that???...
and them i might even meditate
whoa nellie! that might hurt?
anyway i am just dying to get your reaction to this one
its burning a hole in my scanner
i love you
and i am going to go do something nice with my body
while i still feel like it
About this blog
Several years ago I did a series of 99 drawings that I called Middle of the Night Art. That series, and the dialoge between my sister and myself brought me to a place where I finally began to really understand my art, my spirituality, and a sense of who I am in the world. I'm sharing the art and that dialogue here.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
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- Blue Plate Special (1)
- brick wall (2)
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- Driving My Car Off The Road Into Nowhere (1)
- eating (2)
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2 comments
Comment by Grace on September 10, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Whoa Nelly - again, huge, and again, startled, not horrified. Love that - there is a sense of discovery here - instead of wanting to cringe, you want to look some more. This tree, this life, has sprouted from this woman and it will devour her - thematically very similar to Oh No. And the same fish leap over her with the same expressions - and they each look as if they too have been speared through by that tree. The stars are lovely - so lovely and the waves are like time, just moving along unaffected by this scene... And so this fruit will seem to fall, but I have no sense of that being the 'ah ha' moment of this piece - it is coincidental to the miracle she has birthed that a piece of fruit will now add insult to the injury. In fact, I'm not so sure it will actually hit her - this is not what will hurt at all. It is living that will hurt. And then there is the root, that looks like a human appendage - much like a tail or a penis - something human that we might not be so proud of or want to be associated with and yet, oila - there it is... very interesting and impossible not to ponder. And the sun is the silent witness here and it is an impartial and beautiful thing. So I would notice that the red t-shirt is the same red t-shirt in the drawing do I really have to come out here... the very same, down to the very same hole right through the middle of it. This wound is very interesting -
Comment by Shirley Twofeathers on September 10, 2010 at 7:22 PM
it is so interesting to me what you see in them.
when you say what you see.. i get a nice little "oh yeah"
but not necessarily because that was what i envisioned or meant to portray
but because when you say it - i can see it
sometimes for the first time
and sometimes yet again