Post by Cris Qualiana

a very clever sister of mine (named Jo) sent me this animated version of a pencil drawing I did many years ago of the WWII initial bombing of Poland. The film was found in the rubble. It makes me wonder. as the Vic saw it “...sitting in Washington Sq park when we first met, Cris is scribbling in a black notebook... she lets me take a look, and it’s nuts...like a photograph! These guys looking up towards the sky as a bomb is falling... ‘holy mackerel! How do you do that?!’ She tells me it’s about drawing light and not lines... Well, maybe that says it. No lines...no boundaries, whatever she touches is art... whether it’s a cartoon beside her travel notes or landscape on a 6 foot canvas... Or a cartoon on a 6 foot canvas... no lines... It’s all there... Mondrian Mirô Modigliani Picasso Dali...i can see it in a painting or photo, or an impression of Groucho Marx... And draw the light... indeed, from places that we didn’t know it was... and shining on things we didn’t know were there... the face of somebody we passed on the street or sitting in the shadows of a bar...or that thing you might have missed completely... but you can see it now... it’s simple...just follow the dotted line to the purple elephant in outer space “ Vic Ruggiero Musician, Poet initial bombing of Poland (film found in rubble) #wwii @vic_ruggiero @christinaqualiana

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