I like putting skeletons in situations which are normal for modern people–in this case, drinking an overrated, overpriced coffee while talking on a cell phone. It draws attention to the actions of the skeleton rather than emphasizing the subject as a figure, as would be the case if the image of the skeleton were substituted with a depiction of a living body.
Anyway, I dropped this one in front of a Starbucks on a busy street and went and sat inside by the window for a while. After a few hours a person who was walking by looked at the drawing, then grabbed it and carried it away. I almost wish I knew where they took it, a tiny part of me was sad it disappeared, but this was also an experiment in being able to let go of my art. Recently some pieces of my work were wrecked, and to consciously leave this work in a very vulnerable place helped reconcile that issue.
And away it went.
Photo of the drawing on the street. It blended in pretty well, about half the people who walked past didn’t seem to notice it. I am highly amused by the abandoned sheet of cardboard beside my drawing in the photo below.
Funny enough, directly across the street from this a camera crew was filming a group of students on the corner, who are just slightly out of frame in this photo. I think Skelly here might have managed to get some time in the limelight.
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