Well, that’s what I called it while working on it, on and off over the past year. Whenever I couldn’t figure out what to do, I would open it up, sharpen my technical pencil, and listen to what was asking to be drawn. I used a 3.5 x 5.5” Moleskin accordion folded sketchbook, which I really loved. One page led to the next, like that game, Exquisite Corpse, that the Surrealists used to play. Take what is on the page before the fold, draw the line from it at the very edge, and close that image to start with the small, new line, and the imagination! Sometimes, a book I was reading influenced what I drew, like the guy falling from the sky, was from Salmon Rushdie’s, Satanic Verses. Those first few images he painted with his words, just stayed with me. Of course, I always have to add a bird, or my dog, but not in the conventional way. As you may know, if you draw, or paint or do anything that is creative, making pasta, whatever… ideas happen while the pencil, paintbrush, or sauce is stewing.
These are some of the ideas that percolated while I was waiting for something else…
