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I was thinking more along the lines of a "quote" - unfortunately I couldn't find what I was looking for as an illustration, but this Banksy tat is kind of the idea:


His work is very stylized/almost stencil, so simple to ink, but what I had in mind was a quote from this:



Oh, now I find someone wearing Seurat. So yes, this could actually happen. The image embed doesn't work, but you can use this link and check out #37.

^^ Oops. Toddled off to make a very, very late supper without remembering two further things I wanted to say -

first, that "mirror study" if that's what they are called? is incredible. The way you handle her hands makes me wonder if you'd seen DaVinci's "Lady With A Stoat"* - that's (among many things) a very wry comment on how much we can resemble our pets, especially if you know who the lady was - but aside from that, he treats her hand like a lyric.

*or Picasso's "The Dream", similar treatment of implied motion...

PS These references I'm making are probably more about my blasted Aspie pattern recognition than anything else, but if in fact either echo makes sense to you, I'm intending it as a high compliment; as in, look who I thought of while looking at your work.

Second - and dammit, I can't find a link. His literary estate is in a trust, so Project Gutenberg isn't going to have it. But your situation, your muse, made me think of one of the best (and it's positive) works of short fiction I ever read: "To Here and the Easel" by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon was bipolar, and a polymath, and a gearhead, and this story is about an artist in the midst of a breakdown, who finds a likely and an unlikely muse. The whole thing just sings. With bits of glorious snark. And is extremely visual. And I don't think, as a real artist (vs. me, observer who cannot even draw dammit dammit), you're going to find obvious errors in the narration - which tend to jolt me right out of the story and into the writing, so I pay serious attention to that.

IF you can find it through interlibrary loan or similar, I really suggest you read it. For one thing, it may help to know that someone else must have lived through something like this because otherwise how on earth could he have so fully inhabited it, to write as he did? For another thing, if you don't already know his work and it ends up speaking to you, that's a real gift . (If any of your friends have a hard copy, don't ask to borrow it. Ask if you can sit in their LR or DR and read it. I won't let any of my most treasured books out of my hands anymore; stuff happens, unintended. Your friends will love you for getting that up front.)

Not dead.

Passed my 2 year cancerversary on aug 3

Oh, congratulations my love.

So bloody pleased to hear from you.

Missed you soooooooooooooooooooo much

Time went a bit wibbly.

Hooraaaaay!

Hello
And HUGS

Thought it might put a cherry on top of your cake Kura

Literally, in this case, since I'm going to have cake tonight.

I think I'm gonna celebrate with ice cream

I know what you mean. I was on pins & needles the whole time about this & my new job; still am because I'm waiting to start. Welcome back from wherever!

Dude, that's what happens when you live on the upside down half of the planet. Time gets wibbly, water goes down the drain the wrong way — it just ain't natural.

Glad to hear Raleigh is still making her rounds..