South Paw Drawings

In 2006, the summer after I graduated from college, I was working and living in Santa Cruz, Ca, when I broke my collarbone while skateboarding and talking on the cell phone, two great tastes that dont always go so well together.  These are the drawings I made during the rest of the summer, with my left hand.  It was really interesting how direct and figurative they turned out, and I think all my work since then has been about balancing the intuitive symbolic/representational figurative vision of my right brain (as expressed in this work) with the analytic, deconstructive, and calculating elaborations and experiments of my left brain.  The darkly comic political catoons in this series reflect the sense of malaise and techno-nhilism, and search for hope and meaning despite this, of a West Coast Leftie after a term and a half of the disatrous Bush II presidency.


"A Finger Points To The Moon" (R.D. Laing), 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Being and Existence, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches
"Can you see..?", 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Everything Is Fine, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Feelings, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Gimme, Gimme, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Guitarist, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

J-truvian Man, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Labor Interest, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Mercenary, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches 

Miles, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Mother and Baby, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Mr. Big Shot, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Pop, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Propogantastic, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Setback, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

Tractor, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

What Matters, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

What Place Is This, 2006,
ink and colored pencil on paper,
11 x 14 inches

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