On January 1, 2016 I decided to to do a drawing a day. My intention was to give myself a daily gift of creative space and a means of engaging with what lies beneath the surface. Here is selection of my year in drawings and a list of their titles.
Jan 1 The Goddess of Generosity and Her Eruptions of Rainbow Eggs
Jan 2 Weather Forecast: Rainbow Flurries
Jan 3 I am a Purple Cow Agog with Uncertainty
Jan 4 Infinite Possibilities
Jan 5 Chaotic Creation: Connecting the Dots Across the Spiral Rift
Jan 6 Purple Bees Curiously Buzz About the Plummeting Orbs with their Spiralling Vortexes
Jan 7 The Universe is Anxiously Balanced Atop a Teetering Cairn
Jan 8 Orbiting Puzzling Signs
Jan 9 Knobby-kneed, Headless Monster Shackled with Petty Afflictions
Jan 10 Pick-up Sticks Under Ice
Jan 11 Precarious Days, Precarious Nights
Jan 12 Haunting
Jan 13 Stormy Encounters
Jan 14 Brilliant Stark Landscape
Jan 15 Seed Eggs Afloat in the Universe
Jan 16 Where Am I?
Jan 17 Life Encounters
Jan 18 Multiplying Possibilities
Jan 19 Stormy Heart Erupts AKA Heart Fright
Jan 20 Constellations of Hearts Caress Bones
Jan 21 Yellow Earth Rising
Jan 22 Impervious Contentment
Jan 23 Eyes and Ear Turned Inward
Jan 24 The Constellation at the Lake (missed day)
Jan 25 Another in a Long Lines of Goodbye (missed day)
Jan 26 Memory Constellation
Jan 27 Weather Forecast: Gusts of Idea
Jan 28 Amoeba on a Fools Journey
Jan 29 Puzzling Artful Chaos
Jan 30 What’s the Difference Between a Constellation and the Universe?
Jan 31 Stormy Sky, Fissured Earth
Feb 1 Buffalo Spirit Roams through Cracks and Fissures
Feb 2 Swollen Heart Beats in Web of Universe
Feb 3 Deterritorialization
Feb 4 Mute Clown Caught in Vortex
Feb 5 Seeking Connection Afloat in a Universe of “I”
Feb 6 Searching
Feb 7 Improvisational Flight of Intersecting and Free Agents
Feb 8 Intersecting Trajectories and Infinite Dimensions
Feb 9 Off the Map
Feb 10 Slow Burn on the Move
Feb 11 Intersectional Meanderings through a Plaid Universe
Feb 12 Upside Down Shield or Right-side up House?
Feb 13 Two Minds AKA “To Hell with My Suffering, it’s all too Beautiful!”
Feb 14 Dream Bingo
Feb 15 Snake Journey through Dancing Universe
Feb 16 Discharge
Feb 17 In the Embrace of a Loving Universe
Feb 18 Living a Rich Life in the Crevices and Crannies
Feb 19 Flying in the Face of the Border Monsters
Feb 20 Cosmic Chaos
Feb 21 Mapping Constellations of Extraction
Feb 22 Life’s Intersecting Orbits
Feb 23 Dancing on the Beak of an Orange Owl
Feb 24 Agape in an Inter(in)animating World
Feb 25 The Creative Messy and Unfinished Labours of Release
Feb 26 Activating Seed Pods
Feb 27 Belch!
Feb 28 An Arc Looks Like a Line Up Close
Feb 29 Don’t Look Back
March 1 Dancing with Eggs in a Blizzard
March 2 Rainbow Caught in a Web-maze AKA Not in Kindergarten Any More
March 3 The Universe Dances With Gratitude
March 4 Searching For Signs Amidst Random Debris
March 5 The Collapse of a Rainbow
March 6 Volcano on my Shoulder
March 7 Time-traveling on Rhino’s Back with my Friend Rabbit
March 8 Poodle in a Wind Storm
March 9 Derive through the Land of Worry
March 10 Limbo is Not a Static State
March 11 WOMAD
March 12 Caught in an Octopus’s Garden
March 13 A Maze of Aesthetic Order
March 14 Guarding Scavenged Treasure
March 15 Centripetal Force: A Dizzying Equation
March 16 I am Caught/Free and Surrounded by Comets of Possibility
March 17 A Motherless Deer: Doe Away from the Herd
March 18 Corner Choreography
March 19 Latitudes and Longitudes of Spring
March 20 Universal Contingencies
March 21 Heartbreak—Earthquake
March 22 Gravity Unplugged
March 23 BOO!
March 24 Find the Hidden Words
March 25 One-eyed Purple People Eater
March 26 From Seed Thought to Worldview
March 27 Semaphore Communiqué
March 28 Parched
March 29 Creative Congestion
March 30 Lava Rising
March 31 Pale World/Faint Heart
April 1 Amoeba on the Move
April 2 Constelaciones
April 3 Point of Departure
April 4 Big Bad Wolf—or—Grandma?
April 5 Ruffled and Agog
April 6 Phoenix Heartbeat
April 7 Un-aesthetic Disorder AKA Judgement
April 8 tete-a-tete-a-tete-a-tete-a-tete
April 9 A Worm Agog with Spring
April 10 Full Moon in Scorpio—Oh My!
April 11 Derailed Derive
April 12 A Maze of Aesthetic Order
April 13 Flower Power
April 14 Trajectories
April 15 Love and Tears
April 16 Caught in the Gaze of a One-eyed Yellow Creature
April 17 Derive
April 18 Abstract Terrain
April 19 Big-footed, Peg-legged, One-eyed, A-mazing Heart Creature April
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April 23 Some Angels are from Outer Space
April 24 Are All Choices Equal on the Road to Discovering Meaning?
April 25 OOZE
April 26 Mind Meld
April 27 Dragon Adrift on an Aesemic Dreamscape
April 28 Going Somewhere?
April 29 My Angel Dove
April 30 Comets Unfurled
May 1 Stormy Flight
May 2 Fragments
May 3 Centred-De-Centred
May 4 Quake
May 5 Creative Block
May 6 Not a Knot
May 7 Structure? AKA Chaos Theory
May 8 Oh My!
May 9 Worry
May 10 Not-so-jolly Green Giant
May 11 GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
May 12 Trespasser
May 13 Kinaesthetic Eruption
May 14 Flight
May 15 Mad Journey
May 16 Strange Landscape
May 17 Memory’s Palimpsest
May 18 Rupture or Rapture
May 19 A Long and Winding Road
May 20 Resting Place
May 21 Block of Universe
May 22 Creature of Flames
May 23 Amuck with Ideas
May 24 Tangled Mess
May 25 You Are My Sunshine AKA Dancing through the Tulips with My Swee, the Bluebirds of Happiness, and a Pink Dog
May 26 A Blur of Possibilities
May 27 Seeds of Possibility Meet and Kiss
May 28 Seeing Orange and Speaking in Scribbles
May 29 Cry Me a River
May 30 Making Peace
May 31 Birds Sing of Hope
June 1 Teardrop Anatomy
June 2 Bitter Tear Maze
June 3 Dentata—GRRRRRRRRR
June 4 This Way
June 5 Crossroads
June 6 Buffalo Dreams
June 7 If Not Through—Around
June 8 Buffalo’s Lament
June 9 Thing Are Not What They Seem
June 10 Kite Journeys
June 11 Arcs, Grids, Boxes
June 12 Say What? AKA Dreamscape
June 13 Pa(i)ned
June 14 Boxes and Crossroads
June 15 Tears Under Ice
June 16 Psychedelic Windows
June 17 Ambivalent Desires
June 18 All Journeys are Incomplete
June 19 Signs of Disorder
June 20 Quest
June 21 Blocks in Ice
June 22 Vortex
June 23 Movement
June 24 Askew, Askance, Awry
June 25 Crossroads through the Fog
June 26 Mapping without a Compass—Where are the Stars?
June 27 The Upheavals
June 28 Swollen Broken Heart
June 29 Caracoles
June 30 Pac Man Rampage
July 1 Switchbacks
July 2 Say What?
July 3 Wind Storm
July 4 Space Horse
July 5 Dirty Windows
July 6 Release
July 7 Frames
July 8 On a Roll
July 9 Alien Landing
July 10 Road Trip Into the Unknown
July 11 Cat Dreams
July 12 A Visit from the Pink Ghost
July 13 Coalitional Constalaciones
July 14 Acute Angels
July 15 Fractured
July 16 Who’s Who?
July 17 eXploitation
July 18 Scribble
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July 21 Crossroads
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July 25 Eruption
July 26 Incomplete
July 27 Shades of Blue: A Journey
July 28 Hints of Pink
[3 missed days]
Aug 1 FUCK!
Aug 2 Fog
Aug 3 Dark Dance
Aug 4 Searching for Compassion in the Zone of Zero
Aug 5 Trespass AKA RAGE!
Aug 6 Herding Scattered Dreams
Aug 7 Bluebird of Happiness Drops in on Ego
Aug 8 Dream Gallop
Aug 9 Humpty Dumpty
Aug 10 10 x 10
Aug 11 Loopy Times
Aug 12 Ego Maze
Aug 13 Cross(ed)?
Aug 14 Activated Enervation AKA Back Stabbing
Aug 15 Untitled AKA Drawing a Blank
Aug 16 Messenger AKA Talk to me Damn it!
Aug 17 Quizzical Red Reindeer AKA Feral Scholar
Aug 18 Floating Blocks of Possibility
Aug 19 Red Rider
Aug 20 Burst: Implosion/Explosion
Aug 21 Travel Guide
Aug 22 Christmas in the Corner
Aug 23 Self-Consumption: Feed Me!
Aug 24 Self-Portrait
Aug 25 Achy Breaky
Aug 26 Brain Chatter
Aug 27 The Minimalist
Aug 28 Mind [Gap] Chatter
Aug 29 Deterritorialized Rainbow
Aug 30 Haphazard
Aug 31 All on Board
[missed day]
Sept 2 Mapping New Topographies
Sept 3 Bird-snail
Sept 4 Snake, No Ladder
Sept 5 Boxed
Sept 6 Super Nova
Sept 7 Dark Cloud, Spectrum Living
Sept 8 Agog
Sept 9 Searching for Order in a Disordered Universe
Sept 10 Pattern Maker, Pattern Breaker
Sept 11 Heart Palimpsest
Sept 12 Mazement
Sept 13 Scribble Improv
Sept 14 Faultines
Sept 15 Dream Chase
Sept 16 Archangel Fireworks
Sept 17 Orange-pink Poodle Frolicking with Red Clouds
[missed day]
Sept 19 Perspective
Sept 20 Pierced
Sept 21 Untitled
Sept 22 Upside-down, Behind the Wheel, No Brakes
Sept 23 Teeter-Totter
Sept 24 Orbiting
Sept 25 WTF, WTF, WTF!!!
Sept 26 Dying in a Wind Storm
Sept 27 Awhirl
Sept 28 Monumental Upheavals
Sept 29 I’m Just a Little Black Rain Cloud
Sept 30 Hold Your Horses, I Think I’m Having an Adventure
Oct 1 Amoeba
Oct 2 Phhhhhhhffftttt
Oct 3 Iris Reversed
Oct 4 Back Scratch AKA Hatched
Oct 5 Off the Grid, Out of the Box
Oct 6 Hatching
[missed day]
Oct 8 Into the Bardo
Oct 9 Riding on the Horn of a Blue-eyed Monster-mobile
Oct 10 Grandma’s Hands
Oct 11 Connection Multiplies Possibilities
Oct 12 Frequencies
Oct 13 Meanderings
Oct 14 Floating Anxieties
Oct 15 Obfuscation
Oct 16 Waves and Buttons
Oct 17 Quest for Order
Oct 18 Muck
Oct 19 My Life as a Rose
Oct 20 Cautious Encounters
Oct 21 Wistful Dissolution
Oct 22 Uncertainty
Oct 23 Mind Maze
Oct 24 Duel
Oct 25 Topographies of Uncertainty
Oct 26 No Title
Oct 27 Palimpsest Choreography
Oct 28 Howl
Oct 29 Rhyme, No Reason
Oct 30 Rift
Oct 31 Boo!
Nov 1 Spirit Flight
Nov 2 Tilted
Nov 3 Snail-pod, Un-housed
Nov 4 Fall Seeds
Nov 5 Blue Dancer
Nov 6 Permutation
Nov 7 Five Squares
Nov 8 Orbiting Pieces of the Pie
Nov 9 Shattered
Nov 10 Bursts
Nov 11 Remember
Nov 12 Echoes
Nov 13 At Sea
Nov 14 (T)Etched
Nov 15 Hope?
Nov 16 Storm
Nov 17 Alive
Nov 18 It’s a New Dáy-rive
Nov 19 Heart Dérive
Nov 20 Departure
Nov 21 Buried Touchstones
Nov 22 Little Boxes
Nov 23 Dot Matrix
Nov 24 Lines—a mind map
Nov 25 Window or door?
Nov 26 Colour inside the lines—Lines outside the dots
Nov 27 Pixelated Goose
Nov 28 Disordered
Nov 29 In Motion
Nov 30 Tea ‘n’ Talk
Dec 1 Barbie made me do it!
Dec 2 Queen Blue juggles a golden egg in a green box under a pink sky
Dec 3 Whirling Poodle
Dec 4 Crosshatched dreams
Dec 5 Kinetic Balance
Dec 6 Crow and Beaver take a moment to reflect
Dec 7 Caterpillar in a lily pond
Dec 8 Hare on the go
Dec 9 Talking heads
Dec 10 Rotten egg in space
Dec 11 Bikes, bikes, bikes
Dec 12 Other wor(l)ds—Alternate vocabularies
Dec 13 Obfuscation
Dec 14 “Flocking”—Traces Revealing Traces
Dec 15 “Swarming”—Boxes and Bodies
Dec 16 Formation Echo
Dec 17 Un-pent Fox
Dec 18 A Swath of Change
Dec 19 Jaws
Dec 20 Sand on Ice
Dec 21 Working With What Is
Dec 22 Return of the Sun
Dec 23 Directionless: Timed, Untimed
Dec 24 Star-struck
[missed day]
Dec 26 Treasure Hunting
Dec 27 Blue Heart Pregnant with Love and Possibility
Dec 28 Patchwork Life
Dec 29 Storm-a-brewing
Dec 30 Duck Pond
Dec 31 Abstract Hug
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