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Titles given by viewers:
“Dancing for Rain in the Danger Zone” • “Fricassee Hand Jive” • “V for Victory” • “why can’t i get away from myself?!” • “The leaf blower” • “Vacuumcleaning.…” • “The Winged Robot” • “Robot’s in Heaven” • “A Snake in the Henhouse” • “colorful cave crawly” • “mechanical sphinx (hungry for a bird)” • “Freethrow” • “Well Hung Monkey Angel Playing Basketball on a Cold Day Without a Ball” • “directing traffic” • “Palm trees playing basketball” • “Reach for the Sky and Fly, Wing-Handed, Carpentry Tooled, Mechanical Monkey Man, but Don’t Let the Shark Clouds Bite” • “deer in headlights”

What’s your title?

Published by thejemalshow

My drawing style comes from the grand tradition of doodling. The smooth, gentle roll of a pen across the pulpy texture of paper is meditative and soothing. It’s the marks we make in the margins while our focused minds are elsewhere I find most interesting. Most of the work is improvisational, with no intended outcome - only hopeful surprises. Over the years several natural visual motifs developed that I return to again and again, “The Goddess,” “The City,” and the “Map to Heaven.” You’ll find these themes at work here, often a mix of two or all three. There are embedded intentional dichotomies to create a playground of visual cues and possible meaning. When I was in art school I would take my abstract drawings to my peers and ask, “What would you title this?” That simple question activated their imagination and engagement, and when I began posting drawings online with the caption, “Title Me,” imaginative, creative, and inspirational titles poured in. I collect them all, and make selections whenever the work is shown.

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