Yes, it seems that on a few occasions in my life, I actually drew a picture outdoors.

With no people in it. Yes, I am as surprised as you are. This is from April 4 1990, in Como Park, Minnesota, ink on paper. I think I drew it because my friend Tom was bouldering and I was bored?

Picture of a building!

A house on Summit Ave in St. Paul, fall 1990 I believe.

Picture of a street!

Almost no people anyway! September 2, 1990, Portland st., St. Paul, graphite on paper.

Picture of a house!

Fall 1990, graphite on paper. I can’t believe how bad my cars were. This was when I was just barely learning to drive – and note I failed the driving test twice before I passed it on the third go. I just didn’t understand cars!

Picture of a street, around 1990!

The cars were so frustrating I abandoned it.

Outside, from inside!

Grand Avenue seen from inside Cafe Latte in St. Paul, Fall 1989. Cafe Latte still exists!

I loved this church I drew in 1989 or ’90 so much I actually got married there, in .. 1995 I think?

I used to pass it on my way home from Cafe Latte to my first apartment, “the Batcave”. I would stop and sit in the little entry house. It was a symbol of how pretty and peaceful St. Paul was to me. Although i have no religious affiliation, I got married to my first ex-husband there.

The writing on this drawing reads “It’s just that I feel- sometimes I feel like I’ve been arguing with the benign politics of light and shadow for so long, questioning their logical procedures; and the darkness of a wheel-well mocks me –”

A comment about the struggle of creating value in drawing, not metaphorical light and darkness!

These drawings had been scanned, but never edited or published, and were buried many folders deep on an old hard drive – I had completely, utterly forgotten they existed.

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