Short Stories, 2004-09
Just about everyday between 2003-2023 I walked a path from my apartment in East Lawrence to a coffeeshop downtown and then over to my studio near 9th & New York. It was an unremarkable routine that was for a long time only a way of getting from here to there. Then, after years of being preoccupied with my destination and overlooking what was right in front of me, I started to see (and imagine) the places, creatures and people along this route as settings and actors engaged in the performance of everyday one-act plays. It was a refreshing new perspective as if I had discovered something hidden in plain sight. I looked closer, studying puddle reflections, following snowprint paths, glancing through window frames and tree branches, and exploring alleyways. Part wandering flaneur, part documentarian, and part what-ifer, I began watching snippets of these dramas and comedies unfold, never knowing how they began or how they might end. More overseen than overheard, I gleaned what I could from a distance in written and drawn sketches, and then daydreamed up the rest in the studio, the results being these short stories, all of which take place in a ten-block area in and around downtown.
All are ink on paper unless otherwise noted.
