jolie laide

jolie laide

I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.

3.20.2006

4 Comments:

Blogger famjaztique said...

Oh...this one just seems so sad for some reason...

5:51 PM  
Blogger ttractor said...

really? I thought it was sort of a wierd hipster take on "Kilroy was here." But he could be a lonely Martian marooned on a piece of Lower East Side sidewalk...

10:43 AM  
Blogger Dr. S said...

What I wondered after FFAM posted her comment yesterday is whether this drawing is a kind of rorshach blot that looks sad if you're a parent (suddenly, Frou Fox, when you said it seemed sad, I saw that it could be a child's drawing discarded or lost) and happy if you're not. I loved that there was an alien in Manhattan when I first saw it, and I didn't think it was at all sad, but now I can't help but see it through my eyes and yours, too.

5:47 PM  
Blogger famjaztique said...

dr. s, I think you are so right. I did see this as connected to a child. And then wondering why it is abandoned or lost...so yes, through the eyes of a parent.

6:08 PM  

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