I’m realizing that I actually have quite a lot of these sketchy, non-linear, not-exactly-comics to post before getting to the point in the diary where I started really drawing stories. I’m worried that people will lose interest before I get to that point. It’s more a collection of drawings at this point than a comic, and it will be for quite a while, or at least a couple more months.
Maybe adding more commentary, to explain the context of the drawings, will help make it feel more like a continuous story to anyone besides myself. This one is a jumble of recollected adventures from traveling to New Orleans and San Francisco (for the New Orleans Bookfair and the Alternative Press Expo, of course), two of my very favorite cities in the world.
Sierra Kozman was this fantastic artist I met who was selling her work on the sidewalk near the bookfair, unfortunately her only web presence I can find is this probably long-forgotten myspace page with a few pictures of her beautiful collage/drawings. Sierra, if you ever google yourself and find this page, know that I am impatient for you to sell your work online so I can buy more of it.
Sierra was my best friend all thru middle school and high school. She fell off the face of the earth in 2009. I have no clue where she is, and I’m very sad. I also have some original art work from her I would love to share with you. Thank you for showing her work.
Kathy – wow! That makes me so sad, but also grateful I had that brief meeting with her. We spoke for less than half an hour but I felt such an admiration for and affinity with her and her art was so inspiring to me. I hope that she’s well and happy, wherever she is. I will email you a photo of the piece I bought from her as soon as I get a chance, if you’d like.
Please let me know if you find Sierra, if we are talking about the same person we were great friends in 2000 and then I lost track of her. She was always a rolling stone
love the colors in your depiction of New Orleans
Sierra was my best friend all thru middle school and high school. She fell off the face of the earth in 2009. I have no clue where she is, and I’m very sad. I also have some original art work from her I would love to share with you. Thank you for showing her work.
Kathy – wow! That makes me so sad, but also grateful I had that brief meeting with her. We spoke for less than half an hour but I felt such an admiration for and affinity with her and her art was so inspiring to me. I hope that she’s well and happy, wherever she is. I will email you a photo of the piece I bought from her as soon as I get a chance, if you’d like.
Here’s a link to her flickr with a few of her recent-ish prints.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94204481@N04/
You can find her some days at the New Orleans Community Printshop.
http://nolacommunityprintshop.wordpress.com/
Wow – thank you! Still such beautiful stuff, she has a gorgeous way of seeing.
Please let me know if you find Sierra, if we are talking about the same person we were great friends in 2000 and then I lost track of her. She was always a rolling stone