EXPRESS YOURSELF
A Little Blue Monster is the Best Part of Me
We contain multitudes; should our avatars reflect that?
The other week I woke up in an absolute, hellfire snit. I had not been that cranky in a long time. (I know you have been there.)
While I was lying there in bed, kvetching out loud and in general making a nuisance of myself, I recalled a creature I’d made years ago. I call him bunt.
Like most of my artwork, bunt is the result of a combination of things: One, I was feeling pretty yuck, because it was the weekend after the 2016 election had been called for D0nald Tr*mp. Two, I was also feeling happy, because we were visiting Chicago, a city we used to live in and still love, celebrating the wedding of friends. Three, we were staying in the apartment of another good friend.
Four! My friend was sure she had never seen domestic bunting before, so I drew a sketch to illustrate flags decorating an arched doorway of sorts. And then I added eyes and sneakers and arms. (The original bunt still lives on my friend’s refrigerator.)
Many months later, as people who felt the same way about the new presidency as I did sank into more of a funk, I decided to do more with bunt, who still made me happy to think of him, right down to his shape…
