No See-Ums Revisited

Continuing with the inadvertent imagery idea, bring your attention to the lower right-hand corner of the drawing of my husband and me, which is titled "Art and Natalie". At the lower edge of the back of my head, a lightly patterned profile of a figure faces into my hair at the nap of my neck (see detail).

Where this profile touches the hair, have a look at the darker profile which seems to be about to kiss the lighter one! Two inadvertent anomalies! Then, if you look just above these two figures, you will see yet another profile of a person with a protruding chin and lower lip, his eye looking out from under an excessive sweep of hair.

The couple kissing - is that a secondary narrative describing the two of us? I'd like to think that maybe unconsciously I could have willed this to happen…

However, given that interpretation, what would be a probable story line for the profile above the lower two? Is that the faint image of a clock, just to the right of this profile? Could it represent aging and the passing of time? Okay, I've got to stop all this and come back to a less confabulated mindset. But you know, Art and I will have been married for many many years come this July (passage of time?), and as far as I'm concerned, that knowledge may be floating somewhere in the mysterious collective unconscious.