Spotted, outside the cafe
Insider #101 with tiny people to take me back to where I am.
Dear Insider,
I returned from a short vacation this week and am still unpacking.
I know it was a good vacation because of how little I thought about ‘work’. I drew every day, but did not make many posts or even take pictures. I disconnected from the business end of these things I love to do - look at the world and draw what I see. I am back at my desk now in this corner of the world, here at the end of summer. The sky hangs heavy from the smoke of wildfires beyond the eastern horizon. So it goes.
In today’s post, the tiny people I found outside the cafe, and who helped me reorient myself to my time and place. Below the paywall, a discount code to the print store and the link to watch yesterday’s Insider Hangout.
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A Family Waits for their Order
Drawn on a tiny Legion sketchpad with my Kaweco Sport fountain pen and red Kyo-iro ink from Japan. I will leave this drawing at a free library this week for a stranger to find.
Tiny People Outside the Window
I drew tiny people as a way to reorient myself. I looked at the things they did, the things that people do in this part of the world at this time of year. And it let me ground myself. To become a part of the whole. To be one of them.
Tiny people populate my world. Just as they populate yours. Just like you and I populate theirs. This is our social contract.
