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Jimla Micele
The Compton Heights Water Tower is a favorite St. Louis structure. I’d treated it in a “drive-by” drawing in 2001 (j6791) by memory, and now wanted to do it justice. This image was partially laid out near the site, getting proportions from down a nearby street. Photographs of the water tower taken the same day provided texture and light information. I was interested in capturing the masonry patterns, the heavy, sculpted and hewn stone at the base and the polychromous bond of brick above. The substrate is hard black-dyed paperboard. The formal nature of the drawing is not as dynamic as the looser sketches in the “drive-by” series, and the saturation of pencil wax pigment lends a kind of cartoonishness to the picture, but the drawing is one of my best. The work was sold in 2003, shortly after production, to my boss, D. Mitchell, hence the name jimla micele. Produced 26 February 2003 = Tayya 6aa0, six dozen tenth phase (Añikç-Axalairal Xrga, “life-phase of daughter Claire”).
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