Woman On Top
I drew "Woman On Top" in brown charcoal. I showed
it at an art gallery and it sold! if you click on the image and you have
a decent amount of RAM, you can see it big, which is quite a thrill.
I'll take comments anytime.
Coming Soon to a page in front of
you: HERE!
More of MY DRAWINGS (they
aren't my best works, just what I happened to be able to scan):
the Jims: Jim
and Jim, drawn in 1996
the green alien
- a self portrait drawn in 1994?
Brooke, the singer,
song-writer drawn in 1996
Mom (1995), Steve
(1995)
Yotti (aka Jennifer)
drawn in 1996
Flip Elvis drawn
in 1996
People at Tech: Siva
and Perry
(aka Zangin)
PHOTOS (for show and tell.): G'pa
(1995? ), the
Fullers a photo of left to right: Todd, Jennifer, Bill, Black; Gypsy
is center; (1995?), Mom
(1995), Steve
drawn in 1995 A photograph of him
is at Emory.
Pyong taken
in 1996 in her dormroom, who I have several undigitized swell atomic drawings
of
Azoxa, the alien
taken in 1996 on Wellesley College campus, speaks through mouse
Zach watching
Caitlin on the banana phone at the wedding in Chicago, taken in 1996
(it's not really a phone)
Sam Waddick
taken in 1996 (first cousin once removed)
I took this picture of myself
with a digital camera at Interopt 1996 and emailed to myself.
For years, this picture of me
swinging from a tree when I was thirteen at Sapelo Island has been at Dan's
website.
COMING SOON: Slides from Kenya '94:
THEY ARE HERE!!!!
I've been saying that I was gonna upload them. Hadta get them under
100K. (They were each is at a meg.) I'm curious how they look in different
browsers and on different monitors.
"Elephant Damage"
was taken at Amboseli National Park, just as a thunderstorm was breaking.
The park is very small for the number of animals inside it. Elephants are
overpopulated within the park. In the picture you see elephant-torn trees
and overgrazed and trampled ground. Elephant ecologists talk about birth
control and population control. To keep elephants from destroying the park,
elephant families could selectively be killed, a measure called culling.
But elephants can hear for a radius of ten miles. No easy answers.
The border
of this park sharply divides park territory from a highly populated village.
Villagers (often children not in school) guard crops against baboons and
other animals that cross the fence.
Villagers have no incentive not to kill these pests.
In Nairobi,
a billboard for bottled water is a landmark. Behind it, another billboard
for a "restaurant" reads: "As Exotic As Africa Itself." The first billboard
reminds me about land-use issues. Nairobi is a Maasai word refering to
natural springs. Nairobi was a watering hole, a swampy place where Maasai
grazed their cattle and where the British set up colonial headquarters.
The second billboard reminds me of sign that I saw a woman of color holding
at a gay rights parade. It read "Exoticize my fist!" The idea is that foreign
people are exoticized just for the differentness of their skin or culture.
...By exoticizing "the Other," dominant culture holds minorities down and
consider them as less than human.
At the entrance to this park,Maasai
sell crafts to tourists in landrovers. In many cases, people living around
parks have never been inside. Tourism and cultural tourism in particular
are problematic. Depending on foreigners to come and gawk at your lands
and at the way you look and act is not the best of economic bases. Often,
tourists' stereotypes are reinforced. Maasai
One road connects Amboseli National Park with Maasai Mara National Park
(the northern extension of the Serengheti as it crosses the Tanzanian border
into Kenya). Askaris,
soldiers armed with AK-47s, climb the hills to watch for bandits, who rob
the rich foreign tourists driving between the parks. The ground in the
picture is grassless. The area is grazing grounds for Maasai people who
live around the parks.
Those crazy Wazungu!
Wazungu are white people. When the group I was with stayed at Obiero's
home in Nyeri, outside of Kisumu, women in the area would pass the edge
of the property carrying water. One day someone in our group stopped them.
And, we all tried carrying water on our heads. I made a bet that --all
of us trying it for the first time-- the men in our group would have a
harder time of it than the women. Sure enough, the men all spilled water;
and, only one of the women spilled water from the bucket. The explanation
treats the distribution of body weight by sex. Men have more upper body
weight in their chests and shoulders and women have more weight in their
hips. In gymnastics, men do rings and women do floor exercises. Since women
have a lower center of gravity in their bodies, they can better balance
weight on their heads than can men.
Here I am
on Mount Kenya, which is located on the equator. We began walking on the
first day through the rainforest: hot and humid. On the third day of hiking
up the mountain, we were walking through a blizzard. This picture was taken
at about 4, 500m (14,000 ft.) in elevation. It took 3 days to hike up the
mountain and about 6 hours to get down the other side. --I was hiking with
a Kenyan friend named Maraka. Maraka had never seen snow, but had seen
water go into a freezer and come out as ice. He thought he was going to
freeze! (It wasn't that cold!)
