Mrs. Ink
The phrase “Mrs. Ink had a wart that grew and grew and grew and gobbled her up,” mysteriously came to me in my early 20s and I never got this phrase out of my mind until I completed the final drawing series between 1984-1986. By that time, it had several incarnations resulting in a vast accumulation of gathered mental images. My 150-year-old house two blocks from my studio became the final structural “found object” acting as the site for the narrative’s events. This became an exploration of sequential imagery, and also an exercise in drawing from memory, giving me the opportunity to invent perspective spaces for the narrative.
Each of these panels is pencil on 20”x30” Arches paper.
Morning light Mourning White
Bathroom Complications
How does one get rid of "Ugliness"?
Painful rejection = Complete Satisfaction
Confirmation in a Waste Basket
Through the Upstairs
The Descension/Mrs. Ink Descending a Staircase
Of Shoes and Locks and Door Stops and...
Kitchen Light Morning Light
The Emergence
Confrontations
Cause and Effect
Wrong Way Out
Quiet Panic
Mirror Reflections
Fallen Chairs
The Octopus Room
Bird's Escape / Cat's Chase
The Room of Many Puzzles
Too Many Locks
No Time Left
The Ascension
Respite.
All Warts Must Turn to Liquid
She Knows!!
Silent Scream
Silent Witnesses Meet Their End
No Time Left
The Final Door
Into the Light
The Engulfment
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble, Gobble
The Last Metamorphosis
The Grand Wart
It May Be
The Evidence? Or Only the Final Confirmation