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 ...
Doodles
Scream
It's blustery and overcast, but I try to concentrate on contentment, scream, skinny dip in innovation. Errands in the forecast as natural and tarnished as, "Because I said so..." (Source: "Scream", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) ...
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! ...
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 ...
Triumph
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age." ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ...