Limelight ain't what it's cracked up to be... Drawing

Soft pastel on sandpaper. Image is 7.5x9 inches on 9x12 inch sheet. Border is not part of the the image and is meant for handling and cropping out when framed. Require framing to be properly displayed. Situated in an industrial zone of Brooklyn deemed Red Hook by the elders my studio is set inside a honeycomb of other rooms, workshops, vaults, lofts, attics, crawlspaces, naves, nasiums, arcades, closets and cloisters. Cement floors as cold as a senators soul floor the entire interior while crumbling timber vigas support the ceiling and deny the sky its primacy. An ample metal gate slides, with some effort, like a lateral guillotine to allow entry onto a cobbled courtyard mapping the rolling topography in an undulating grid. To reach my studio you must go through a series of doors(each narrower than the last) made of Ox teeth and pass through a series of hallways that smell like lanolin (a grease secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool bearing animals). Some consider the passage a tedious toil (ox teeth doors stick and jam easily) but I consider it the work I must to...er...work. Once inside one notes the room in which I paint to be of modest size but gloriously illuminated by a two story north facing window the panes of which are pebbled chicken wire glass admitting diffracted light but not a view of the outside. The reason I detail this setting for you dear reader is that I want you to have a clear, if diffracted, view of the room in which I work so you can imagine a special feature within. On the west facing wall there is small utility closet. Inside this dusty enclosure there is a circuit breaker box with switches and ancient fuses and a tangle of colorful wires. When the top left fuse is unseated it reveals a hole. When peered through the hole becomes a camera obscura portal onto a scene of lush verdant jungle. The exotic forest is roped with purple vines that I've often seen naked girls swinging from over a carpet of moss so green I become envious each time I stand there in the utility closet with my face pressed up against the breaker box when I should be painting.

Drawing:Pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7.5 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

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