Snow Day 007

Henry Miller was 43 when Tropic of Cancer was published. It's listed as one of Time Magazine's ALL-TIME 100 Novels. I'm sure it's on several other "top" lists as well. There's hope for me yet. I am wondering about including Emily Carr in this short story, Snow Day. If I set the story in 1910, then Ms. Carr will be 39. I almost wish to include her as a child rather than an adult, but the Empress Hotel wasn't built until 1905. Ms. Carr would already be 34. Perhaps it's in the cards that she's the matriarch I know her as from school and her resting place in Ross Bay, H 85 E 15.

Infrastructure 20100221

Rough for the communication / language blanket. Central to the work is the human ear and the telephone keypad with the alphabet on the keys. Secondary are the stitched sound waves as sound is not the only way to communicate thought. Perhaps a bit too David Salle pastiche, ha ha ha. However, mingling stitching with silk-screening, patchwork and painting may be a great approach to layering imagery in this and other blankets.
As well, pocket this piece of trivia: David Salle is almost exactly ten years my senior.

Sketching 101

My son, Mickey J Sinatra, gave me a mini Moleskine as a present for Christmas. Let's put it to use! Here's fellow designer, Bob Fehr, spending part of his birthday working at an online graphic for the provincial website.