Ganymeade. Jupiter

Europa. Jupiter
NASA / JPL / Cassini / Stryk

Finished up 20 this week - just over half of Saturn's moons and went to gather Jupiter gulping at the number 68... my right arm and shoulder are getting used to the labor again. Drawing is like running, you have to build up the muscles and the memory before any kind of consistent mark-marking begins to happen. You may snarf (or perhaps not) at prideful skill. At this rate, should be done right on time to move for school in July. This is a goal. set. match.
I work best in competition with myself.
Happy to have started over
(after completing about 60 of the panels last year-with unsatisfactory finishes and careless scratches). attempt.failure.skill.attempt.failure.skill.attempt.failure.skill. Happy to have the time to finish up this series before hitting the books again.
Its Spring and the doldrums have lifted!
Rah Rah Rah Rally

Love, love, love this image.  The monolith.

Prometheus. Saturn

I'm working on the moons again. 

Here are my reference images for today.

Atlas. Saturn

Hyperion. Saturn

...I would have traded

places with anyone raised on love,

but how would anyone raised on love

bear this death?

-Sharon Olds, from "Wonder"

I have written letters that were failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies.  Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not?  I begin this letter to you, then, in the Western tradition.  If I understand it, the Western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

This is easier, I think, when your life has been tipped over and poured out.  Things matter less; there is the joy of being less polite, and of being more - not more - careful.  We can say everything.

Although maybe not.  Like in fishing?  The lighter the line, the easier it is to get your lure down deep.  Having delivered myself of the manly analogy, I see it to be not a failure, but a lie.  How can I possibly put an end to this when it feels so good to pull sounds out of my body and show them to you.

-Amy Hemple, Tumble Home, from the Collected Stories, pg. 233

Jason Salavon
early use of many multiple similar found images overlaid
in nod to our proliferating visual environment.

Every Playboy Centerfold, 1960's

Every Playboy Centerfold, 1970's

Every Playboy Centerfold, 1980's

Every Playboy Centerfold, 1990's