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Bisbee

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9″ x 12″

Nothing fancy, just a little sketch in Bisbee.

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Golden Armadillo

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22″ x 24″

Whenever I drive from Miami to New Mexico I count the dead armadillos along the way. One time, seven. Another, eighteen. I’ve never seen an armadillo alive and sporting armor, so I was relieved to see this golden one snuggled up against a man in Natchez, Mississippi, which is not on my normal cross-country route but now holds a definite appeal. Plus, what a great word: Natchez. The man has his arm around the armadillo and reclines in the middle of Main Street in a proprietary way, a protective way, as if he knows armadillos are rarely alive after they’ve tried to cross a street somewhere. Or a super highway. I can’t imagine what it must be like to touch an armadillo’s back, which, they say, is leathery and rough with plates and grooves across it, preventing it from rolling up in a ball when threatened, as some might have heard. In fact, I can’t believe that The North American Nine-banded Armadillo tends to jump straight in the air when surprised, and consequently often collides with the undercarriage or fenders of passing vehicles. Crap. I’m glad this gold one has a friend. Plus, there’s a big eye looking down on Natchez now. That should definitely help.

–Maureen Seaton, June 15, 2011, Chimayó, NM (for Noah)


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Before the River

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12″ x 18″ each

From a photograph of my great grandmother and her cousin on the bank of the Mississippi River in the early 1910’s. All black inks, black paint and graphite and a little colored pencil, they are dark and glossy in places so my apologies for the slipshod photography.

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Wastrels

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9″ x 12″

Originally these two came from the frontispiece of my mother’s A Child’s Garden of Verses from the 40’s. Clearly they wandered off.

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Troglodytes

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10″ x 14″

(also titled: The Eyeless Wastrels)

a. A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.
b. A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.
c. An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm.

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Trailer in Distress, Christmas Lights (aka Too Much Glare, Too Little Patience)

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24″ x 24″

Getting in the holiday spirit. This trailer painting, and the one that I’ll post tomorrow are dedicated to my friend Christian Peet. Every time I’d work on one, he’d call, so I think they are for him.

Photo quality is bad because this is painted with glossy house paint and oil, too much glare, too little patience.

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Guardian of Our Mothers and Fathers’ Mothers and Fathers

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8″ x 10″

Also maybe titled “Scourged by Yellow Fever”, a line taken from my great great grandfather’s diary, written about his childhood during the Civil War in Mississippi. The tiny little coffin on the seat of the carriage, and so forth. Might need to see this in the enlargement, it’s a light-handed drawing.


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Specter Projector

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22″ x 30″

Another large picture (larger than the others anyway), a kind of companion to “Please Please Pleiades”.


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Trailer in the Forest

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11″ x 14″

The trailer in ominous repose. This seems related to the Ghost descending the stairs, though it couldn’t be the same location.

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Sorrow for Beginners: Misund

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8″ x 27″

This one painted in response to this S. for B.’s passage by Frankie Rollins:

I said yes and there was argument
I said no and there was argument
I said okay and there was argument
I said do you think and there was argument

Any day can take on the tint of sorrow

There are more misunderstandings
than I ever thought possible.
I still let them break my heart
but you, forewarned,
might not.

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The Final _______ of _______ ________.

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3 1/2″ x 5 1/4″

This might be based on a Giotto painting, or on the Sorrow for Beginners drawing from earlier, or from a photograph from an old movie still based in a WWII field hospital. Either way, it’s pink.


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Please Please Pleiades

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22″ x 30″

Been working on this one for a few weeks, hopefully will expel the phrase “Please please Pleiades” from my mind, been ricocheting around in there for a while. This is also titled “Half of What They Carried Flew Away”, from Andrea R. Those two lines collided and made this image.

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Longing for Beginners: Forget Me Not

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8″ x 9″

A parallel development emerges… also a hand book or field guide.  As with Sorrow for Beginners, please feel free to write a passage to accompany the image if you feel so inclined.

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Sorrow for Beginners: At the Stump

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9″ x 12″

Last night’s Sorrow for Beginners painting. Another passage in the handbook. The chapter on how to __________ in a time of ____________ _____________. Carrying on with the two-day tradition, if you would like to write something for this image, the comments section is a tabula rasa, baby. Make yourself at home there.

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Sorrow for Beginners – This Lie of Eating

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8″ x 9″

I feel like doing a few of these Sorrow for Beginners pieces.  If anyone would like to write something, poetry or prose or whatever, to accompany this image, please feel free.  It  helps me do the next one. (writing in comment section)

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Burning Trailer

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9″ x 12″

This specific trailer is going through a kind of purification by fire. Not pleasant, but necessary.

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Birthday

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6″ x 13″

had a dream last night I should make this image, except out of grits.

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Colors and Bars

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6″ x 10″

taking a break from the request drawings to revisit the jungle gem burial mound theme, though it’s a little tenuous here.  The relation to burial mound getting a bit thin.

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How many times

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9″ x 12″

words and phrases offered by friends on facebook after a call for requests.  more to come.

obdurate: unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; unyielding, stubbornly resistant to moral influence, persistently impenitent.

galvanized: protected by a metallic coating to prevent corrosion.

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In a mine under Chile

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20″ x 24″

painted from a screenshot while the rescue was streaming live on Chilean tv, otherworldy crackles and voices in the background.

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