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Pen and Ink Series #38: Convulsing Man, LA, 2025

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This old lady was in the ER yesterday with her middle aged son. I heard her tell the triage people that her son had epilepsy. It was a busy day. All of us were in our own space until the man with a small child, sitting across from me shouted to the nurse. We all […]

Pen and Ink Series #37: Waiting in the Emergency Room, LA, 2025

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I took my sketchbook on the road today. After triage, here wasn’t much to do in the ER, so I sketched some interesting characters (or portions thereof). Five hours of waiting and observing concentrated on the surface of a 9×12″ sketchbook.

Pen and Ink Series #35: Visual Language: Time Zones, LA, 2025

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Lately I’ve been thinking about the differences between visual language and spoken (or written) language. When ideas are transmitted veyrbally or in written form, one must process them sequentially. In painting and sketching, all the ideas (in the form of visual elements) are presented to the viewer at once. In the experiment below, I broke […]

Pen and Ink Series #34: Irritated Point, LA, 2025

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A couple of posts ago, I addressed the concept of a visual language, and placed pictograms (anthropomorphized alphabetic letters) in a pattern.  However, this missed the mark: my pattern is sequential.  In a visual language all symbols are presented simultaneously without obvious relationships among elements. I am still trying to gather more information about visual […]