STILL TIED

A COUPLE YEARS LATER - TIME FLIES - IN THE AFTER LIFE

I’m still here. A bit astonished that I had not posted anything for a couple years. Just recently finished breath sheet 800! I was not expecting that. This is approximately 40,000 individual breath drawings. 

Over the past number of years these drawings are mostly representative of ethereal figures -human in another form. Maybe fantasy, maybe science fiction, maybe the invisible larger form of our higher selves.

sos breath sheet 800 - Pasternak

The Years of 25,000 Breaths

My TIME is Done

I am Free to GO

sos breath page 498 - pasternak

sos breath page 499 - pasternak

sos breath page 500 - pasternak

Don't Hold Your Breath

Like the marks on a prison cell wall, counting the days down to freedom. I made it to the 500 and I am free to move on but I know I will continue because that is what I do. It's already happening with sheet No.503 but I will no longer be posting any more of these. It's not as though I had any goal in mind. This process is eternal. It started many years before this set which I have posted examples of periodically and it will continue in various forms in years to come.

These are figurative works, in one and or all aspects of what a human being is.

Breathe

20,000 Strong

Random page from pocket sketchbook - May 6, 2018

Yesterday, May 28th, I completed my 400th sheet of the S.O.S. Breath Drawings Series that I started while at my current evening job at a call centre. I started there in October of 2013 and this job allows me 'moments' to doodle here and there throughout the evening. Other people there either read or do crossword puzzles or talk to their neighbors in between calls but I like to doodle.  I began a formatted drawing sequence on my 3rd sheet dated Dec.3, 2013. All are on the same paper using a medium ball point blue pen. Four and a half years later (I never thought I would have remained there for so long) I've managed to produce 400 of these sheets. Each of these pages average 50 drawings and fifty times four hundred equals twenty thousand! Way to go Robert! Now what?

I continue.

Here are a few from earlier this month.

S.O.S. No.391  May 3-4, 2018   8.5 x 11 in

S.O.S. No.392  May 7-9, 2018   8.5 x 11 in.

S.O.S. No.393  May 9-10, 2018   8.5 x 11 in.

S.O.S - 15,000 SOULS ESCAPE

298... 299... 300
HOLY HYPERVENTILATING

15,000 Minutes Of My Soul

I did not think that I would be at my job at ipsos long enough to have accumulated 300 sheets of the Breath Drawings. With an average of 50 doodles on a page, this amounts to 15,000 drawings!

S.O.S. sheet No.296

S.O.S. sheet No.297

S.O.S. sheet No.298

S.O.S. sheet No.299

S.O.S. sheet No.300

TRUE TO FORM

S.O.S. sheet No.171

     Two years have past since my previous Doodle Babel post. Have I been sitting idle you ask? I am still waiting. Like on a desert island, waiting for rescue. I have an unlimited supply of 8.5 x 11 inch paper and enough Blue Ball Point Bic Pens to sink the Titanic. I now have 171 of these sheets with an average of 50 drawings on each one, totaling about 8,550 drawings. That's a fun and perplexing notion.

S.O.S. sheet No.170

S.O.S. sheet No.169

S.O.S.

 ip-s.o.s.no.1

Last fall I started a job as an interviewer at a market research company. Between automated dialing to a new respondent there is lag time. This time between phone calls can be anywhere from a micro second to a few minutes. We are allowed to amuse ourselves during these moments by reading, doing crosswords or whatever. Some people do crafts and some draw and some are on their electro gadgets.

I have a hard time reading between these moments, so I've opted to doodle and this works very fine for me. These drawings are a continuation of my doodle forms, and as you can see there is a regular format that has developed nicely after the first few pages. I have here the first 8 pages plus my most recent page no.38. The formats for pages 9-37 remain all the same. I am still constantly amazed at how similar and yet entirely different each drawing is.

 

 ip-s.o.s.no.2

 ip-s.o.s.no.3

 ip-s.o.s.no.4

  ip-s.o.s.no.5

 ip-s.o.s.no.6

 ip-s.o.s.no.7

  ip-s.o.s.no.8

 ip-s.o.s.no.38

New Armor