dready ‘twirling on the beach’ – original commission – 24×26

mixing the real with the imagined, building a scene, if you will, that grows out of your head in stages …

you photograph a real seagrape tree on a beach, not this beach, and decide that it’ll be the sort of focal point of what you’re going to show …

then you look for the personalities in the people and try to make that find its way into the drawing and so it goes, you add a beach hut, but just the edge of it, you add a palm leaf, a boat you add seme birds
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spinning away