A niche market...
OK yeah sure i could have chosen SOME OTHER image to come back to my blog with after absolutely nothing, no sign of life, since april 27. it’s spring! there are flowers! would it be so hard to upload a couple of flower pix??
i have flower pix. don’t think i don’t. but this doodle strikes even closer to my heart than pix of lovely roses. red roses. pink roses. white roses. multi-colored roses. we’ve seen ‘em. they’re everywhere. i’ll post some later.
ever since january i’ve been thinking thinking thinking about a bunch of stuff making notes and thinking. maybe eventually it will come into really writing it. or not.
anyway to my surprise just today my train of thought huffed and puffed and chugged into the station at TRANSCENDENTAL, and how was i to know that was even on the way?
so this little doodle came.
i’m OK.
Happy Little Guy
Doodling while on the phone about something utterly unrelated (surely!) to the drawing.
Luckily, I understand this phenomenon from top to toe! Each of us is actually a busload of differing personalities and characters, often fighting over who gets to be at the wheel. So it’s easy to see that one – or a few – of us can be carrying on a telephone conversation while one – or a few – others, not at all like-minded and having zero interest in the chatter going on, may take advantage of the opportunity to steer the bus down doodle row.
So, at least, it is with me… or us.
i’ve paid too little attention to my doodles. mostly, doodles come from deeper than consciousness. so whatever they might be doing – posturing, strutting, slumping, gloating, despairing, whimpering, sniggering, wondering – they’re doing it with no forethought and no agenda. they are honest little brats.
i like ‘em. here’s me, i’m on the phone. if it’s a business call, there are periods of waiting. i doodle. even when the conversation is moving, and even if it’s someone i like talking with, doodling can happen. no necessary relation to the topic, but it might have.
this one. the drawing seems totally random, unrelated to the words, which are pieces of stuff mentioned in the conversation: ABC license and press release. don’t ask; it doesn’t matter.
but the picture: is that a self-portrait? the little guy – is he a thought in the big one’s head? is there any meaning in this at all?
i like the flag lying on a table and then cascading over the edge. late model jasper johns? i don’t think so.
i’m just saying: it’s something to wonder about.
Doodles are under-reported. But they have rights, too!
Think of doodles as fringe drawings: from the fringes of the unconscious.
Doodles can be our friends. Paul Klee had doodles actually living in his studio! They used to show up regularly at those Bauhaus parties….
The outline of a drawn object represents the place where the object ends and the background (next object, container of the object, etc.) begins.
So what about an object floating in empty space? No outline?! You’d want to blend it into shadowing of the object.
Here is a doodle from Captain Zero’s log, Star Date J709MSQRL1935-2/4/8:
[From the log:] “Depicted: a B7 Framptis disconnected from the jar ball gear and with the slide pelb so worn, it looks as if it’s been pounded with a hammer! Probably the gyroscope oscillator worked loose enough to pound the pelb during maneuvers. It would not have been so loud as to be heard with the engines revved.”
