the silent chime of the toilet paper roll

while i love the sounds of wind chimes, i have a new dream of creating a silent one...out of toilet paper rolls.  so far i have two rolls.  the one above is my second.  how many rolls does it take to make a silent wind chime?  stay tuned!  toilet paper roll + sharpie + colored pencil.

great heights at the park

this is a quick sketch i did today of one of those real-life heartwarming scenes that only happens at parks:  a little girl with a super long ponytail down her back flies a kite with the help of a kindly older man who looks mysteriously like santa clause (if santa clause lived in austin).  long live public space!  micron pen + colored pencil.

"the cycle of life and death in the forest"

i have always wanted a notebook made of paper bags and now i have one, thanks to my exceptionally talented bookbinding friend and copious amounts of her help/ patience.  the graphic on the cover is a
a photocopy of page 1783, gleaned from a set of 1924 compton's pictured encyclopedia.  it's one of the most perfect descriptions of anything/ everything, i think:

"the caterpillar  eats the leaf, the young wasp eats the caterpillar, the beetle eats the young wasp, the bird eats the beetle.  then the bird dies in some forest tragedy, another beetle comes along and buries him and his remains make the ground rich so that another tree can grow whose leaves another caterpillar will eat."