posted by ttractor @ 4:18 PM
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.
4 Comments:
Oh...this one just seems so sad for some reason...
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...
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.
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.
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