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I always wondered…

I realize its been a month since I’ve posted. I do have a good explanation for this.  Aside from moving out of my apartment in Cincinnati, moving into an apartment in New York City, starting a new job and bouncing around from couch to couch in the meantime, my dog ate my computer. And sketch pad. And pens.  Yep.

The other day on my way back to one of the many places I called home over the past month, I sat across from an elder woman. She was incredible, a beautiful woman so expressive in her silence and public solitude.  I couldn’t tell if she was reading or staring at the pages deep in thought.  I liked to think the later.  The corner of her mouth dipped so low it nearly fell off her face.  This woman had stories. She carried them in her drooping eyes, in her side-swept pewter hairs neatly tucked in place by the coarseness of the fiber, in the folds of her skin – a roadmap to the gatekeepers of her life’s past and present.  After seeing her, I knew she would become my next sketch.

Blog Sketch august 16, 2009

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I was telling my good ol’ friend Robb the other day that I was working on a sketch about my bowel movements, which lead to the comment “when am I not talking about my bowel movements.”  The answer is simple: never.  The thing is on the surface it may seem like its all about my excrement.  All about my poop.  How much. How often. If its normal.  And it never is.  But if you think its only about my fecal matter, that’s merely because you aren’t looking deep enough.  My tales of deuces dropped past are allegories for many things, such as the life and death of the Samurai warrior class in pre-industrial Japan and the Ottoman Empire’s role in the shaping of feminism in modern Turkey.  Therefore, next time I ask you “how often does the normal person defecate” think long and hard.  What am I really asking? Really.

The sketch below came from a conversation several weeks ago when I was pretty certain I was not in the realm of regular.  I decided to sketch what it would look like if I entered a contest for bowel movement regularity.  The flannel-clad lady on the right climbing a pile of feces is me.  Smiles.

Enjoy!

Blog Sketch July 29, 2009

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Blog Sketch july 19, 2009

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strings.

I have a slight obsession with people being supported and pulled in various directions by strings.  You will probably see a lot more of this…

Blog Sketch july 3, 2009

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