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AðilyrâDrawings of my wife |
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I first met “fair Laura” in a series of parties among the muticultural, international set in St. Louis of the mid 90s. She simply had to be taken; I presumed she was off limits. I’d attend the parties, from festivals in the homes of some of the members of the group I called “the Culture Club” to parties jam-packed into apartments in the northern Central West End, mostly in the hope she would be there. In autumn 1997, Laura attended a U2 concert with me and two other people. We seemed to hit it off; around this event I sketched a memory-portrait of a girl who rapidly displaced everything else in my mind. She disappeared, not returning calls or emails, she was out of reach and I didn’t know why. Suddenly in February 1998, she and I met again at a party in Dogtown. At that time my car had broken down at the corner of Brentwood and Brentwood, and I was on foot for 40 days. I’d recently bought a used car “Angelina” in pristine condition. I celebrated Angelina, showing me and Laura on a recent date. I’d just learned to drive stick and Laura was in for a bumpy drive! By the ensuing February I had proposed; I sketched her portrait in ballpoint pen in the half light of her apartment. Later, the man who married us, Bishop Naumann, signed that sketch. In May 1998, I sketched Laura in ballpoint and marker and later in that journal, I sketched her together with me, a vision of us married.
These drawings celebrate a magnificent woman who became my wife.
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