Reminder: I am teaching a class in messing about in sketchbooks and telling stories at Richmond Art Center on Thursday nights starting later in March! It will be a space for experiments and friendship and peace. Yes yes!

Sloth and Manatee

When I was little and riding in the back seat of the car on the highway, I’d watch the terrain go by and make up stuff.

Like, the rolling hills of California looked like they could be the backs/heads/tails of dormant and Very Large animals, slumbering there, before waking up and rumbling around.

Or heading South out of the Bay Area, the rows in the fields of crops (that area used to be mostly orchards), stretching away from the road and converging at a point in the distance, would look like the running legs of a very long and tall horse as they flipped by.

Often when I look out an airplane window I consider all the things down there that I cannot sort as to what the heck they are, and I’ll probably never know, but to whoever is down there those things are just the normal stuff. The house or the field or building or what have you.

When we aren’t able to resolve what we are looking at, other made-up shapes emerge. Maybe we see something inside-out at first, or notice a face or some other shape. I tend to see creatures, which is not surprising.

When I see cows hanging out on a hill alongside a road, I assume they are up to something.

Sloth and Manatee Page

Brainwaves

Best of Brainwaves Volume One: The Fountain of Stuff

Best of Brainwaves Volume Two: Mom, Dad, I'm a Cat

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Art!

I have to share with you the time machine one of my students made. You put your hand in the middle, and then you decide what time you want to go to, and then you push that big ON button.

Print Shop

BunnyFrogCatSnake

Things Of The Week

Speaking of faraway animals, the Dutch lock where you can ring the doorbell to open it when migrating fish need through is in its spring season

So fantastic, this animator had a cat wander through all their works-in-progress.

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Sorry - I’m so inappropriate

Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.

May you see an animal far away, may you see an animal up close, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy