I went through three pocket sized Canson sketchbooks and roughly two and a half handmade sketchbooks (made of old yellowed index cards I found in my grandparent's attic) during these two years.
These are some of the sketches that I fancied. Some of them served as precursors for larger works.
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| My white shirt at church... |
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| Some skeletal figure who has apparently stopped learning. |
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| This is when I first started 'thinking critically' as the textbooks say. |
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| Some more skeletal figures, expressing their young love. |
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| Quite the infamous piece among my friends. |
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| Mr. Loquacious confronted by Mr. Taciturn |
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| Frankly, I was sick of taking exam after exam in school. |
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| Poisoning some brainpipes. |
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| More ropes. |
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| Ropes. |
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| A horntail. |
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| Wounded Knee |
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| One very depressed tree. |
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| After Chinua Achebe |
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| Despair |
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| Suddenly becoming disillusioned on the drive home from school. |
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| Emasculate |
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| An empty space I drew without reference. It might exist somewhere quiet in my mind. |
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| My math teacher. I was quite fond of him as you can tell by the violent stamping. |
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| A friend depicted in a Japanese Ukiyo-e style. |
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| Fishy man with arrows. (future reference for Battle of the Dogmatists) |
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| Shakespeare and dying dogs. |
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| After Franz Kafka |
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| Angry mulleted self- portraits. |
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| Thinking about congnition and mental connections. |
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| Another horntail. |
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| After Bertrand Russell |
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| I drew this while hiding in a corner of a classroom as an assistant at the local elementary school summer school program. |
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| Ozone Nozone |
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| The effects of two sneezes. |
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| My paisley design I drew in class turned into an octopus. |
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| After Of Montreal |
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| Some sort of enigmatic response to a dead fish left in a jar on my porch. |
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| Periodically purging one's brain is quite the soothing experience. |
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| Some angry dogmatist |
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| The noise of a scratched record. |
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| Seed of degeneration |
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| I was told I was shallow. |
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| Ellipses and George Orwell |
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| Skinny Dali-esque figures. |
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| Fish head being tantalized by a fishing line |
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| This snail is frightening. |
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| A representation of car sickness. |
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| A response to certain social pressures. |
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| 'The one spot I didn't cover' |
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| Breaking free of some sticky-note confinement. |
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| Studies of my dog reclining. |
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| Some weird looking guy... |
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| After Sylvia Plath |
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| Feeling quite burdened by my copious amount of homework. |
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| 'The Great Fishers' |
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| A man in a tree. |
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| Another man in a tree. |
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| 'Waiting for an epiphany' |
delicious. brilliant.
ReplyDeleteMike you are so talented. I love your work!
ReplyDeleteI see/feel myself in those fragile skeletal figures. At times unable to nourish or be nourished. Parched and brittle in my detachment, yet still inexorably connected to all that is life.
ReplyDeleteYou have a great gift. More than just strong technique, your work shows heart, soul, humor, and keen insight. It provokes thought and wonder in me. Thank you for showing.
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