fini

The ginko trees have turned golden. I feel like the rain. And in the eleventh hour October slips away like tea gone cold.

Maybe Sparrow (Day 31, fini)
pen and ink
3 x 2"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

30

I am not I, thou art not he or she, they are not they.

--Evelyn Waugh
(author's note Brideshead Revisited)

Birdcages (Day 30)
pen and ink
6 x 9"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

29

I think what you doodle is very revealing. Not what you draw consciously, but what emerges when you mind wanders. I always draw faces. I don't know why.

That face
pen and ink
1.5 x 1.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

27 + 2

So...Life happened between day 27 and day 29. And drawing did not.


Agatha (Day 29)
pen and ink
5.5 x 7.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Twenty-six

Someday...I will own a mid-century modern chair of my dreams. Until then, I will draw them.

Eames Eiffel Wire Chair (Day 26)
pen and ink
3.5 x 6.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Twenty five

I realized I haven't done a chair yet.

So here is a mid-century modern chair I came across today at the South End Antique Market. It was a particular green, and in the afternoon light it reminded me of Edward Hopper's Room in Brooklyn (1932). That patch of green light is mesmerizing.

Green chair (Day 25)
pen and ink
3.75 x 6"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

twenty four

The ibis was revered in ancient Egypt and is the symbol of the god Thoth, the creator of magic and the inventor of writing. He is thought to have created himself through the power of language.

There is something calligraphic about the skull of an ibis.

Ibis (Day 24, part 1)
pen and ink
6.5 x 2"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009





Thoth (Day 24, part 2)
pen and ink
6.5 x 2"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

22

Play With Fire (I got burned) (Day 22)
pen and ink
5. x 7"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

twenty-one

Wednesday.
Lovely night to drink Turkish coffee at a sidewalk cafe and muse on yellow umbrellas and the imagined destinations of planes flying overhead.

Cafe Umbrella (Day 21, part 1)
pen and ink
5.5 x 6.75"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009




Cafe Umbrellas (Day 21, part 2)
pen and ink
9 x 6.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Vingt

The Proust questionnaire asks-- What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I don't know yet.

Right now I am asking myself-- What are am I doing?
I don't know yet.


Hell is a blank page (Day 20)
pen and ink
6 x 1.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Eighteen

Today is an anniversary of sorts, I started this blog two years ago. I honestly don't know why. But it has been a valuable outlet for my current work and state of mind.

On a sidenote...it snowed today. I couldn't believe it.


Antlers (Day 18)
pen and ink
5.5 x 3.75"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Seventeen

Wildebeest Deux (Day 17)
pen and ink
5 x 10.5"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

XVI

Cervus canadensis (Day 16)
pen and ink
6 x 8"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Quindici

I have always found the Bialetti espresso maker elegantly intriguing.


Faceted Espresso (Macchinetta) (Day 15)
pen and ink
2.75 x 4"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Fourteen

Saratoga Bottle (Day 14)
pen and ink
9 x 3.75
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

four + nine

Penguins for O. (Day 13)
pen and ink
5.75 x 2.25"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Eleven

A winged passenger wandering around the Harvard Square platform last night. Inbound or outbound my friend?

Red Line Pigeon (Day 11)
pen and ink
2.5 x 2"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Ten

I unabashedly love Starbucks. Say what you will, but that $3.64 cup makes me happy.

I find Starbucks oddly comforting. It is consistent in the best possible way. Starbucks in Cambridge is the same as Starbucks in Reykjavik.

I didn't really drink coffee until college. In my junior year when I was trying to work my way through a particularly dense art history course in Postmodernism, I would take all my texts and notebooks and fold myself up into a corner table and read for hours. Anyone who has read Jacques Lecan or Michel Foucault knows you need at least one espresso to even get through the first paragraph.

Now it is a habit to go and work or read or draw or escape. I like to melt into the corner and just watch the world.

Tall non-fat no-whip Hazelnut Mocha (Day 10)
pen and ink
2.75 x 4.75"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Nine

I really have no idea.

Homage to Man Ray (Day 9)
pen and ink
2.5 x 4"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Ate

Fortune cookies are one of the strangest forms I have ever tried to draw. They are so structural.

Does anyone ever actually eat the cookie? I don't. I just save the fortune. Tonight's seemed rather appropriate...








Musings on Fortune (Day 8)
pen and ink
5.75 x 8"
copyright Kate Castelli 2009