This beguiling maiden stands along Canyon Road in Santa Fe. I'll verify the gallery and the sculptor anon, but for now a "doodle bomb" with only a subtle hint of the beauty remaining, cloaked in labyrinthine admiration. Think less of a maze-veil and more of a meditation on her surfaces and contours. That sounds smutty. Sorry. Skip the smut and conjure up slow, contemplative pacing through ...
Midlife Doodles
Doodling in middle age, doodling in the digital age... Daily. Digitally and not so digitally. Sometimes almost not digitally at all. Welcome to my midlife doodles.
I doodle old school back-of-the-napkin doodles with borrowed pens and pencils. Or a straw dipped in tea. I doodle in meetings, and I doodle in bed. I doodle at the beach. On the beach. In the wet sand by the water's edge where I sometimes re-doodle when the waves wash over my works of whimsy. I doodle on my phone. I doodle on the not-so-fancy paper placemat with my spilled coffee. Or red wine. I noodle-doodle on my plate, and sky doodle with my flashlight. I doodle in the margins of my books, and doodle on the backs of envelopes when paying bills. My friend even doodles on pristine white airsickness bags and then slips them back into the kangaroo pouch in the seat in front of him for somebody to discover later. Dogs doodle in the snow and we call it marking their territory...
Do You Doodle?
Maybe you should try marking some of your territory with doodles? Or maybe doodle a morning message on your misted mirror instead. Doodle-dawdle to decompress, and doodle-bomb get even or make a point or just to experience [almost] what it's like to graffiti. Doodle because teachers and parents told you not to. Doodle because it's risky. Doodle because it's safe. Mostly — and most important of all — doodle because you can and it's fun!
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Gulp
Sometimes a gulp is a gasp. A verbal, audible indication of shock or panic. A fleeting moment of concern. A hesitation. A double take. Sometimes a gulp is a subtle apology. Other times – especially if you're a fish – a gulp is just a quick slurp of air (or food) as you explore the vast unknown. Mid-adventure refueling. Freedom! ...
Inside
"We are always the same age inside." ~ Gertrude Stein ...
Cardinal
Like virtually every other child on this wondrous orb I grew up drawing, doodling, playing and creating without limits. Well, no walls. And no permanent marker. This doodle was inspired by a red cardinal school mascot in my earliest years of school. There was a school-wide contest to design a t-shirt logo with the school mascot. I was in second grade, I think. My angular cardinal didn't make the ...
Crescent Moon
A return to the crescent moon, an image and an idea that I've probed elsewhere, "Cuckold Moon" and Cuernos, for example... I've been fascinated with the shape and mystique of the delicate lunar arc. And I think I first began writing about it right after college. This crescent moon doodle is an absent minded scribble from a meeting or phone call. It's nothing, means nothing. It's just a whimsical ...