I've been working in the studio and hiding inside the quiet world of color and it has been glorious and the only way I am achieving any sort of inner peace of any kind. So instead of new stuff, the closeup today is a retrospective of a couple watercolors I did WAY the hell back in art school (1992-1993) range that only exists in slide format (flood casualty). The first watercolor is that of an old English telephone booth that existed in real life near school in the Third Ward District of Milwaukee and when the sun came up in the morning, and we’d walk past it on the way to school, the booth really was that vibrantly red on this white brick wall from the sun so I took a picture of it and decided to do this piece. I have no recollection of what the blonde haired boy drawing on the sidewalk is all about.

The second piece centers around a movie, “To Be Alive!” I saw as a kid that they showed only at The Golden Rondelle Movie Theater in Racine in the 1970’s. I’ve scanned in the cover of the book to give you all a visual idea of where I was headed. In the film they do a lot of split screen moving images on white space effects and I wanted to recapture that somehow with all of my white space. The drawing of the crabby ass little girl on the left is a drawing of me from an old photo taken in the 1970’s in our backyard in Racine, WI. I originally intended for the pencil drawing to remain a pencil drawing in the final piece as some contrast to the watercolor's "color".