Girl is an Island

In response to The Beach.

Girl is an Island, detail
Girl is an Island, gouache and traces of pencil on bristol paper, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2"

The Beach

In response to Bits and Pieces (Real Bodies)

She is walking through downtown. It’s the kind of downtown with buildings that rarely go above two floors and never five. She hears a band playing in a parking lot and goes to watch. She is really, really high. A dog runs up to her. She scratches it behind the ears.

It is hot. It has been so, so hot. It’s getting hotter. She was wearing a very thin hooded sweatshirt but now she takes that off. She had a two-piece bathing suit on under her clothes but now she takes her pants off too. She is sweating. She hates sweating.

Nobody in the parking lot is really looking at her because some other people have already taken their clothes off too and by now it’s sort of old news.

Bits and Pieces (Real Bodies)

In response to Full.

Bits and Pieces (Real Bodies), ink on paper, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"