The story of this drawing is a little bit different: Yesterday I peeled a mandarin orange, and the peel reminded me of an integral symbol, which is basically a long, stretched-out “S.” I found that peel again today and took a picture of it for you!
This morning I felt inspired to draw that backwards integral symbol, but then I saw something on the blank piece of paper. This time it wasn't what boring people would call a hallucination, but something physical, probably a dog hair. Anyway, it seemed to point the other way, so I started thinking about it and eventually decided to draw the integral symbol in the usual way, not backwards:
So far, among my abstract drawings, this is the most abstract one.
Now we can see a tombstone near the center, or is it an isopod? At the top, is that the little symbol a chandrabindu, a moon, or—drumroll—a Saturn symbol? The masked creature on the right has sense pleasure taking over the front of its brain space.
Is that a broom pointing at the rodent's head, or could it be a component connector?
On the left, I decided to represent the seven major chakras inside the human body with my own symbols. Colors will make them easier to recognize even for someone who doesn't use my proprietary ad hoc symbolism.
This time what some people like to call my “glistening amœbas” could actually be considered amœbas. Normally I just think of them as blobs of pitch. We see two of them forming another chandrabindu-like symbol.
It's time to give the whole thing some meaning by adding color!
As always these days, I used my Noodler's Triple Tail fountain pen, Noodler's Bernanke Black, Arteza colored pencils, and Rhodia paper.
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