Bogota

Montaigne and Hawthorne

Many years ago, when I was still in high school, I went with a youth group to a United Farm Workers rally in Watsonville where Jesse Jackson was leading a march. This was only a few years after he’d run for president. He had quite an imposing aura. He seemed to be made of stone.

My thumb was crushed and fractured between the crossbeams of a forklift last Monday. I can’t use a pen anymore, which is why I’ve started making these brush drawings. A brush doesn’t require any pressure. This is what I can do now. I some ways, I think this work is more powerful.