Jimla Verse (Crown Candy Kitchen)

jimla verse crown candy kitchen

This delightful portrait of a landmark confectionery and diner in Old North St. Louis was produced as a gift to architect Verso, on the occasion of his wedding. This veronal jimla (inversed drawing) captures the midday light as it graces the south façade of this old brick building, typical of those in his neighborhood. The image was drawn from a photograph. The cars parked on the old and new asphalt glisten in the Midwestern spring sunshine on a severe clear day.

This is the last veronal jimla produced during the “classical period” of their production, between 1999-2003. Shortly after this, I opened up Vinci LLC and my creative focus moved away from fine to commercial art. Jimlyn would be produced for purpose, and years later as a leisure activity (In 2010, confident new verone-style drawings were sketched at Sugar Island, Michigan s6796), but the seriousness of study and intent to capture light rapidly through colored pencil has faded from my practice. Check out my portfolio of construction visualization, commercial art that is now my principal creative application, the continuation of the thrust of this art portfolio.

This last veronal jimla also marks the fading of the questing, tentative, insecure nature associated with my “Icarus” personality, the maturation of a schlepper into a macher, confident and strong. No longer do I brood about past shortcomings or the Heisenberg of relationships. I have become a self-made man, a corporation unto myself.

Produced 24 May 2003 = Tayya 6b53, six dozen eleventh phase (Añikça-Verakrexal Xrga, “life-phase of actual resurgence”).

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