A shot rings out
Dear Sarah - Day 388 of our daily drawing exchange
… in the night (at the Fortezza) and changes everything.
Well, this drawing project is taking me to some odd places. At the moment, I’m drawing my way through my magic realism course. The scene in The Stronghold I’ve just read is deeply disturbing (a soldier becomes a killer when he fires at a comrade who does not provide a correct password). Then again, the whole novel is disturbing, in a dark and delicious kind of way. I was a Kafka fan as a teenager, a lover of awful Russian novels (novels were great, subject matter awful). Clearly, I have not quite grown out of my fascination with the disturbing side of human behaviour.
It was a strange book to come home to after an afternoon in the city during which I had some new headshots taken for work.
I guess you’ll be seeing those at some point… Always a weird day when I have to put on makeup and brush my hair.
Tomorrow, I’m attending an online lecture by Jeanette Winterson (school-related - I think it’s being co-hosted by SFU/GLS and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing). However this came to pass, I’m quite excited to be going and will try to retain some commentary from the morning all the way through a busy work afternoon until tomorrow evening when I’ll be back here, writing to you…
Cheers,
Nikki
Hi Nikki,
That is a big-ass gun. So your day had two kinds of shots: head shots and gunshots. You do have an exciting life. I’ll be really interested to hear about Jeanette Winterson. I’ve read a couple of her books, but not anything recent.
I spent most of the day working on a memoir by a hospice nurse (lots and lots of death scenes, but oddly not depressing). Even so, I definitely needed a walk in the sunshine. I’ve decided that as I wait for spring to arrive, I’m going to draw the flowers I see on my daily walks. First up—snowdrops. My apologies to those who are in the deep freeze right now.
Can’t wait to see your new headshots. I was looking at the one in your Insta ads and thought She’s got bangs now! When our book is picked up by a publisher, we’ll have to get a photo taken together. The horror! The horror!
XO S
