Grow

Marker pens on Canson plate pressed (very smooth & white!) illustration board, 85X60cms. Model is my 10 yr old son, who agreed to model for me, but only after seeing the work completed did he truly understand what it means to appear in a work that might be displayed and critiqued in public. It showed me how careful we must be about informed consent when we use models or even people's property in our art, especially young people. Consequently, this has become a deeply personal, almost spiritual work to me, so it'll never be sold, & probably never exhibited either. One day I'll pass it on to him as a keepsake, beautifully framed. We are made of the same elements- recycled atoms- as everything else. Every 10 yr old boy is made of bits of universe: elements formed in stars long dead & recycled over billions of years through the first single celled organisms & early ocean dwellers, through plants, dinosaurs, furry mammals, and their own human ancestors. Just like the mothers of 10yr old boys, they're made of the same stuff as the moss, snails, branches, & feathers pictured on this one. Now is our time to draw beautiful things, learn about the universe, go to school & work, make friends, create new family members, & play computer games before our own atoms are dispersed & recycled into the next life. It's a very modern concept, and yet this drawing looks somehow ancient!

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