Apparently this was the summer where I posted every two months. This had not been my intention.

I’ve been steeping in long-ago times, my friends. Like, really long ago in terms of old photos and documents of my family which I’ve been sorting and organizing over the past five weeks. And – not quite so long ago but still feeling like a time gone by – in terms of the sketches I did of the old derelict homestead cabins in my neighborhood.

These sketches were done around 2008, not quite 20 years ago, but the neighborhood has changed more since that time than it had changed in the 50 years prior. Changed such that maybe an old wooden spool is not so likely to be found in someone’s yard, and may not be recognized by one of the new residents as it surely would have been recognized by long-time residents.

The wooden spools had had cable on them, such as the phone company would have used when they were bringing telephone service to our part of the desert. When they were done the spools were up for grabs, and grab them folks did. They make great patio tables. And when the inner spool finally collapses, as they do, you’re left with heavy wooden disks that also make great patio tabletops.

There’s more than one in my own yard, I’ll tell you that.

So there’s a spool in this print, as it was in someone’s yard where I drew the original sketch. As well as a wire hanging down off the roof – a wire that shows up in several of my sketches. See another version in this pastel from 2015.

I was quite taken with the wire. As I was quite taken with the spool.

So the image above is another of the monoprints that I… 

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