There’s a saga tree in the park where I go running. A friend used to tell me that I have to think of myself as a runner, not a jogger. Running is like being a hungry shark, eating up the distance with your killer feet. Jogging… jogging is like, bad running. Jogging is for pandas,… Read more
I’ve been a fan of Mothers News for awhile now. I can’t remember how I found out about it. The internet that I love is so different from the way corporate-owned social media works. I have nodes, fixed points of reference that I keep going back to (favorite writers or creators, but also sites like… Read more
This is an exercise adapted from Ivan Brunetti’s Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, basically a master cartooning course in the form of a slim book. The chapters are divided into weeks, 15 in total, with exercises and assignments each week. The first is ‘Spontaneous Drawing’, which contains this gem: Exercise 1.3 Pencil out a grid (or… Read more
Zedeck scolded me for taking limes from the tree without permission, but I felt not a hint of remorse. If there’s one thing fruit trees can teach you, it’s abundance. When the durian tree in our backyard was in season, there was too much fruit everyday. We went around on bicycle giving them to everyone… Read more
The Mary Oliver poem from the previous day’s drawing led to this one, specifically, the line ‘you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves’. If someone had asked me straight up, ‘what do you love?’, I probably would not have said ‘cute animals’. Drawing seems to call forth… Read more
