ye olde trip down nostalgia lane.
file name/piece's name -- size. date of creation. general description.
Shoehead and Phonehead. 25K and 31K, respectively. Shoehead is summer 1990. Phonehead's date is unclear; it looks like something I might've done in the second grade, possibly 1991 or even 1992. In kindergarten, I started a series of drawings which featured various "people" with polygons for heads. After I ran out of shapes, I moved onto everyday objects. These two are perhaps the most bizarre of the bunch -- in one, a shoe ponders his very existence as he looks at a sneaker sitting upon a table. You could say it's philosophically similar to the "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoon in which the snowman holds a snowball in his hand. In the other, the phone flashes a grin that was stolen from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Both were done with crayon and colored pencil. Phonehead's nose got smudged somewhere along the line. I enjoy puns.
supercat1.jpg
andsupercat2.jpg. Both 40K. Summer 1990. SuperCat was a character that I started in the summer between kindergarten and first grade. These two pictures were taken from the book The Story of SuperCat, which tells of his origin. In the story, his mother gives birth to a younger sibling and SuperCat, overcome with jealousy, runs away. Here, he is camping out in a tent as it begins to rain, and he worries about his mother and sister. The rain is represented by a large drop with a face, intended to signify his anger, which slowly turns to sadness. Meanwhile, in supercat2.jpg, they sit on a park bench in the rain worrying about him.
maskman.jpg. 4K. December 1990 In the first grade, I developed a character named Ed. Ed was a Martian who, like SuperCat, had a rather humble alterego -- as Maskman. This image is a detail from the story Mask Man Saves Mars. Maskman had foiled the plans of a devious supervillain, whose henchmen include a giant that stuffed Maskman into a burlap bag. Fortunately, Maskman escaped and slayed the monster. However, he is caught offguard by some smaller henchmen -- and he cries out in surprise.
juice.jpg 8K. Early 1991. One of Ed's best friends was an artist named Juice. Juice's antennas, built horizontal across his face, were strong enough to balance two jugs of cider, a talent that gave Juice his name. His artwork was characterized by below-shoulders shots of various people. These are two examples of "Juice's" artwork: a boy in shorts, drawn from the front, and the back of a girl in a bathing suit.
When I Grow Up. 36K. 1989 or 1990. This is the only really distinct memory of kindergarten that I currently hold. My teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, and this drawing was my response. I wanted to work with markers, basically. Anyway, when I was in kindergarten, arms were drawn perpendicular to the torso, as if the person was held on an invisible cross. Grown Up Me also has a bow in her hair. One of my future paintings that I depict here is avant-garde. The other one, that looks like Alfalfa, is a Care Bear. My teacher thought this drawing was postively "amazing" because I drew a portrait of myself from the back. My teacher had crazy hair. That's all I will say. This is a photocopy of a photocopy, and it has since been discolored by fruit stains.
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