Sunday, October 28, 2007

October 28th, 2007

This drawing was about my desire to make art during this last week, but I found that I was just too drawined to carry out my ideas. I would sit there at my desk staring at the paper, mentally folding in on myself. Then there was nothing else to do but give up and go to sleep.



This comic depicts when I run my fingertips along surfaces or the air as I walk around. Why draw about it? Because sometimes my heart just seethes with loneliness, and I have to snap myself out of it by reminding myself that I'm lucky enough to have fallen in love with the world. So it would be silly to dwell on something as minute as a lack of romantic fulfillment. I know, that all sounds so retarded, but that's what honestly runs though my head. And it always straightens me out.



This painting is about my bad aim. That's all I want to say about it...

Sunday, October 21, 2007

October 21. 2007

The caption sums it up. Last week Billy brought homemade banana bread into work, and watching the hungry Spaeth-cadets attack it at break time was like watching a pack of lions attack an antelope carcass. But not in an icky way. A funny way.



No, this is not a sad drawing. This is actually about another work-inspired moment. I had spent all day painting faux marble on a deck with Amanda, and when I got to the subway I was relieved to get to sit down (ahhh...) and close my eyes for a few minutes. But once I closed my eyes, I saw those marble veins just clear as day! Nooo! It had been a long day indeed.



"You seem to have a lot of stuff going on in your head," he told me. I replied, "It's like there are all these projectors, playing different images all at the same time. It's hard for me to focus..." So this is what I saw in my head when I described this.





Here I'm cutting off my shadow, a la Peter Pan. But the shadow isn't mine, it's someone else. Attached to the soles of my feet.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

October 14, 2007

On my exhale, I felt the words escape, "I miss him...." But not just him...I missed every him. Just everyone. The whole lot of 'em. Like I wrap myself up in the memory of everyone as my own sort of cold comfort with the recent drop in temperature.



This drawing is about how here in New York I've learned about all sorts of little worlds that I didn't know existed before. It's exciting. And I feel that I've only scratched the surface.



Here was the initial front piece of paper to the collage, but it just looked so visually busy that I ended up sticking with a plain black piece of paper like how you see it above. Just thought I'd share it with you anyway...as though validating all the time that I spent working on it. ;)

Thursday, October 11, 2007

October 11, 2007

The other night my mind was all chatty as I was trying to go to sleep. So I mentally tied each of my random thoughts to little messenger pigeons and sent them flying off. There you go.



This comic is about how I haven't expressed myself about certain things with folks. Because sometimes no one cares to listen, or I just want to keep things simple, or I just want to let them think what they want. You get the idea. So these are my interjectory word bubbles, my sentence fragments piling up.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

October 7, 2007

This is a drawing of a pair of Armani frames I found on the ground yesterday. How did they get there? How did they get so contorted? Is the owner wandering around glasses-less, bumping into walls, talking to telephone poles? These thoughts amuse me. (This week I also found a cool bookshelf put out on the curb for trash pick-up...which I then carried all the way back home with me. It's awesome.)



The other morning when I woke up, there was this sliver of light hitting the batik that hangs at the foot of my bed. And I just thought it was pretty, so I decided to recreate it here. This is actually the upside-down version of the original composition, because somehow it just looked better this way.



This comic is about the discrepancy between who I really am versus how I think of myself in my head/ how I portray myself in my art. Since you might have noticed that I'm my reoccurring character. The drawing in the first panel is actually a copy of my "Back in Five" drawing I did a year ago. (Note for Juliet: I know that you've always call my drawings "windows and mirrors", but here I'm labeling them more as distorted reflections rather than accurate copies of reality.)



The caption says everything. It's about a friend who lives in Hoboken...poor fella.