These multi-paneled “Nonets” never know where they’re beginning, or where they might end up:

-The R.E.M. song NIGHT SWIMMING played while I was drawing the woman navigating a sea on an inflatable inner-tube.

-A pen, like a song, is a kind of temporary transcendence over death itself.

-The laughing man laughed hysterically at that notion.

-Law enforcement was called.

-The swat team unloaded both barrels in chorus while the laughing man laughed.

-The laughing man was holding on for dear life at the end of the world, you see.

-Seas at the end of a night swim can get choppy and uncertain.

-Bob Dylan has been a sort of Zelig figure in our Popular Culture for well over half-a-century. So has he been in my drawings.

-The laughing man has a third eye which is a monarch butterfly.

NIGHT SWIMMING (2025)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels, 17 x 20in (5 1/2 x 6 1/2in each)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels (5 1/2 x 7 1/2in each)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels (5 1/2 x 6 1/2in each)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels (5 1/2 x 7 1/2in each)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels (5 1/2 x 7 1/2in each)

Ink and watercolor on nine paper panels (5 1/2 x 7 1/2in each)