monday morning in Taipei

I did this on the floor at the top of the stairs
on a huge sheet of paper with crayons

the last time I did that was with
the girl who lived next door in Saskatoon
who showed me how to draw planes and skies
with play bricks and crayons
on big sheets of brown paper

on the floor at the top of the stairs: D

I've been intrigued by the mutiple-panels
on that first image on the blog since I saw them

perhaps the multiple images allow for layers
and sound forms and unexpected juxtapositions
to begin to move and change
between the marks and panels
so the drawings are no longer static
but animated and fluid ?

I want to fill walls with them

incomplete instructions for assembling a moon

maybe I've finally started drawing

just these lines
calmly made
one after the other
quietly hypnotic

like my brain has stopped
and my body is releasing
some strange internal
tv test card

large contrasting panels with type fragments









perhaps the micro wave towers
or the cities grid system in Barcelona
got to me when I was there last year ?
because I started drawing these lines
and I have no idea what they are about
and I've started drawing them
again in Taipei

looking through cloud holes ?

the visual migranes I get when
working on arrgghh work ?

submerged leviathons ? [ because I like that word ]

70's polish film posters
the numbers that always appeared in his work
were reference numbers to his former girlfriends ?

I'm 4 and watching the
dust particles in the sunlight ?

I was 8...it was winter
my first day at school in Saskatoon
they wanted to beat me up at lunch time
I was sat behind the leader in class
I started making biro lines
on the back of his lemon shirt in the lesson
the teacher and class were shocked
all staring at me like I was a monster
after that they left me alone ?

the memory of reading my dead dad's
small red note books from work
full of chemical structures and
how to close down the factory
in an emergency ?

I need to know how to close down my heart
in an emergency ?

this is an emergency