drawings all tell a story. so do photos and tapes and words and
i don't think theres such a thing as a recording really.. nothing can be replayed, just retold
a tape playing the sound of a falling tree isnt the same sound.. its just the tapeplayer telling
the story of that sound.
i think what we see.. are stories our eyes tell our brain. after that.. the original story completely disappears..
and all that is left is remnants of that story retold as memories in our head..which are new stories.. bright and slightly different.
so yeah.. i believe the characters i draw are alive. in my world theyre alive and i dont mean that in any
subjective or metaphorical way. theyre as alive as i am. they are part of me just like you are.
and yetis exist.
i think we should be able to have the courage to draw outside the lines of our own stories and not have to be scared into telling them straight.
and drawing outside the lines means romanticising..
when we retell the stories that our eyes and ears once told us.. we are free to embellish all the details!
the 'truth' isn't what our eyes first told us..
it's in all the changing details..
in the stories that our memories re-imagine.. over and over again until something touches our heart.
cause noone sees what's inside 'you' really.. only you know that stuff.
they just see all the stories that bounce around you like static on a balloon.
just like there's no truth in an artist analysing a painting to me.
by the time the painting tells me its story..the artist has already disappeared forever.
but the stories.. they leap off the canvas like gleaming sparks,
like tiny lit up dragonflies that flutter in the dark.
that senselessly recreate, and randomly regenerate
that transfigure in my memories
and mutate in my dreams.
and i find myself immersed, not in the painting i once saw../leaf that i once smelt/song that i once heard/cheek that i once kissed,
but in all its flickering sparks
that jump and turn
and swarm me,
warmly.

'the universe is made up of stories, not atoms' - muriel rukeyser