sketch 3rd july: i'll show you mine if you show me yours...
pencil and gouache on book cover and end page with found nurse's notes and heart diagrams
Sometimes the simplest things are the best. I've had these nurse's notes knocking about for years before I even figured out that found scribbles and doodles was something I wanted to work with. I guess they've always just intrigued me.
I've often come across it in my piles of papers and thought about how old these notes are - I think from the 1930's - and that I've had it for at least the past 10 years - with good intentions of working over it only for the past couple. Sometimes you just have to wait for the right time for things to happen, sometimes that time can be a long while coming.
On Friday, as I finally got around to working on it, I was thinking about it's passage through time over the past 80 years or so and where it will go in the event that I sell it in the future. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I spend to much time thinking about the lives and history of inanimate objects and that maybe I should get a life!
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