five thousand shades of blue
Saturday, September 01, 2001
Wow, I'm blushing at all the nice things folks are saying about my art things. I sense a definite favourite in
"This Will Teach Me a Thing or Two". It's actually not specifically an illustration in the sense that it was never intended to accompany a printed piece but was deliberately done on the theme of "Hell" for a past-and-present illustration students' show at
SUNY@B in 1997. Since the original is hanging framed in my front door entryway and is definitely larger than a magazine page (oooh, I should add dimensions to that page), part of the impact to me has always been being able to read the words. If the picture was on a coffee cup, obviously it's going to be
way too small to read the words on the chalkboard. So, I pose the question: if the picture on the cup was too small to read the words, and was captioned "Hell", do you think that would still work?
I am having a day. My neck and shoulders ache; the muscles and tendons feel like they are slowly turning to stone and are only tenuously holding my head upright. The headache keeps moving from front to sinuses to jaw. I have been performing feats of clumsiness worthy of Jack Tripper of
Three's Company. But hey, I get to sleep in past 5:30 am for three days in a row. Woo-freakin'-hoo.
is
this just not enough…?
