Paul Keefe
Region: West
City / State: Lawrence, KS
I made a drawing last September from the passenger seat of the
car. I pulled out my notebook and mapped out what I could see:
the rear-view mirror, a couple of knobs inside the Honda Civic,
two South Dakota trees, and one flat line. I look at the wobbly lines
that make the image and I remember the newly paved interstate,
with its incremental seams between sections of roadway. My
pencil picked up the vibrations like a seismograph. Ordinary
experiences like this can contain valuable lessons. Drawing
teaches me to be open and observant: it is a tool for revealing the
lessons learned in these small moments of reflection.
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