The Measurable Side of Life

 

more 2020

Some working drawings for Crow Commute. I spent all of 2020 developing the concept and then the draft drawings for this project. I turned in a mockup of all 22 panels in December of that year. I had originally thought I'd do a lot of research for the project at museums, but museums were closed. So instead I drove around the city and drew, I conducted phone interviews and watched youtube videos. I am most grateful for being forced out of my shell to interview people and collect primary source information. It was really interesting and heartwarming to talk to people who have shaped the last 50 years of Seattle history, and being a shy person, I probably would have avoided this work if I could have gone to museums instead! But I think those primary sources made Crow Commute a lot sharper as people's history. I was very insulated from the ravages of the pandemic in that I had a job already lined up, and was able to to complete it within the constraints of Covid. I know so many people who lost jobs and were left at loose ends. The older I get, the fewer answers I think I have, but the daily disaster of the 2nd Trump administration has me thinking about 2020 a lot.

 

Throwback Wednesday: April 2020

 

One of the first drawings I did on a receipt when I was beginning my horizontal studies for Crow Commute. Remember those early days of the pandemic when the ground was strewn with used latex gloves?

3-d

 

Nobody's Counting Your Mistakes

 

East Roanoke St.

 #black tights #miniskirt #maryjanes #big sweater #turtleneck #shawlneck #undershirt #porch #book group

Getting Through It

 

I've always kept a little collection of wise and helpful words in my head. I certainly don't live by them every day, but they are what I aspire to. The oldest is the Bob Dylan line that I've held onto since my teen years. Also from my teen years, the (maybe) Goethe quotation that was on a poster in my parents' kitchen with a photograph of Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein climbing the West Ridge of Mt. Everest. The Lynda Barry quotation (which she got from someone else but I can't remember who) is something she refers to often in her writing classes, and has served me well over the years when I felt stuck. The Frank Herbert quotation, is from Dune, but once a few years ago, I saw it on a random dude's t-shirt and couldn't get it out of my head. It was during the first Trump administration. I asked my husband Mike about it later, "is that a quote from Nietzche?" He laughed and said, "No, it's from Dune." Anyway, it's the one I think about the most these days.

#cat #plant #ginger #baseball cap #drinking #running #filing cabinet