Ancestral Realm

Ancestral Realm. A flyer for a class review. ED11A, Ancestral Realm--the final project for my big drawing class--described more fully in an earlier post. (See Navy Man.) I’d rework these flyers each term—that is, make a new one for each new review. And the quality of the copies was always important. By that I mean the specific quality of the copies—their look—the type font, the paper, the latent trace of technology (here the horizontal  strain lines from a poorly made xerox)—which were meant to bring out a sense of time. Or at least my understanding of it. And of course the drawing. One of my own, figures on a road, perhaps. I don’t remember the source—or if I invented it. (About 2007, teaching with Nathaniel, Chelsea and others. Katie, of course.) There’s a touch of Blue Period Picasso—always my favorites—with that same quality of figures present/figures past. The Family of  Saltimbanques, from 1905. From a time  time when he accepted (and had mastered) that particular language of longing…

The flyer is taped up to something else, the side a white cardboard packing box, on the table near the office door. In situ, as they say. As if you were there with me yourself…


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