Sketchbook 1995

Sketchbook, spiral bound, 8 x 8 inches, animated gif of ink drawings made from paintings, newspaper photos, personal photos and author’s excerpt, March 6–July 21, 1995.

Pens: Pigma Micron disposable; Rapidograph starts at Dalai Lama on 6.29.95.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957, excerpt:

They rushed down the street together, digging everything in the early way they had, which later became so much sadder and perceptive and blank. But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

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Jean-Siméon Chardin 1699-1779
Titian, Tiziano Vecellio 1490-1576
Jack Kerouac 1922-1969

3.6.95
Jean-François de Troy
The Declaration of Love, c. 1725

3.7.95
Jean-Siméon Chardin
A Rabbit and a Copper Pot, c. 1739
The draughtsman, c.1734-7
A green-neck duck and orange, c. 1728-30
The teapot, 1764
A plat of oysters, c. 1726
The ray fish, c. 1726
Musical instruments with a parrot, 1730

3.8.95
Jean-Siméon Chardin
Musical instruments with a basket of fruit, 1730
A copper pot and spice box, c. 1734
The copper cistern, c. 1734
A woman drawing water from a cistern, 1733
The kitchen maid, 1739

3.9.95
Jean-Siméon Chardin
A lady sealing a letter, 1733

3.10.95
Jean-Siméon Chardin
The house of cards, 1737
A lady taking tea, 1735
Soap bubbles, c. 1733

3.31.95
Jean-Siméon Chardin
A glass of water and a coffee pot, c. 1760
A basket of wild strawberries, c. 1760
Dead partridge and a pear, c. 1748

No date
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

6.15.95
Titian
Tityus the damned, 1549

6.18.95
Lake Cochituate (2 pages)

6.19.95
Titian
Tityus the damned
Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1570-76

6.20.95
Jack Kerouac and Mémére (with cat),
Aug 1966, Ann Charters photo
Jack Kerouac and mother (with cat)
Titian

6.23.95
Susan B. Anthony, age 36, hair bobbed
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

6.26.95
Nero

6.27.95
Mike Greenwell (newspaper photo)

6.28.95
Mike Greenwell, Jim Davis photo
Broadwing, David Sibley drawing (3 pages)

No date
The Compassionate Holder of the White Lotus His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet (2 pages)

6.30.95
Mike Greenwell (3 pages, newspaper photo)

7.1.95
Mike Greenwell (newspaper photo)
Top of the trail
Mike Greenwell
Tenzin Gyatso
Baseball (Mike Greenwell)

7.5.95–7.6.95
Standing figures (6 pages)

7.6.95
Broadwing (David Sibley drawing)
Titian, Tityus the damned
Tarquin and Lucretia

7.7.95
MLK
Family photo, 1964

7.8.95
Underwater polar bear (newspaper photo)
MLK, 1965

7.10.95
Parents (2 pages)
MLK
Crowd (baseball stadium photo)

No date
Underwater polar bear (newspaper photo)

7.11.95
Underwater bear

No date
Expo Montreal, 1968

7.12.95
Titian
The Flaying of Marsyas, c. 1570-76

No date
Jack Kerouac and mother (with cat)

7.19.95
(Bill Lee pitching for Red Sox with stadium crowd, newspaper photo)

7.21.95
Love’s Ladder