"Orphans"

This drawing was such a pleasure to create. It is for a show at the Hotel Indigo Gallery here in Athens, Georgia, called "Tiny Universe". None of the pieces in the show are to exceed 8 inches in any direction; this one is 8"x8", exactly.

The idea for this drawing has been in my mind for well over a year now. I got the idea for it walking through my neighborhood on a cold, chilly night, and saw a conspicuous looking box under a street lamp. The light from the lamp was faltering, and my imagination was already reeling, and I got the idea of the box being filled with little, unwanted, subhumanoid creatures. When asked to be in the show, I knew immediately that this was the drawing I had to submit. Once I started putting the universe where these orphans would exist together, I realized that it was one where anything not directly in the light of the streetlamps was prone to uncanny reality, or un-reality, as it were...